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Photo#523956
Northern Crescent - Phyciodes - male

Northern Crescent - Phyciodes - Male
Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 3, 2011
Antennal clubs are orange.

Moved
Moved from Northern Crescent based on discussion of this image on the MassLeps and NE-Leps e-mail lists. P. cocyta has yet to be firmly documented in Massachusetts.

 
Commentary from NE-Leps about this photo
"For me the BugGuide illustration is very clearly NOT a tharos. It also does not work for me as cocyta. My guess is that it is most likely a diminutor or an undescribed taxon. If it were me, I would list it as Phyciodes sp., along with a brief explanation of why; including that Phyciodes taxonomy still needs work on our continent." - Norbert Kondla

"tharos ... can have orange-tipped clubs and are highly variable as we currently understand them. P. cocyta clubs are variable as well, especially when viewed from above. And recall that according to Gatrelle, one of the keys for incognitus is the UNDERSIDE color of the antennal club, not the tip, nor the dorsal color. But I would note that this genus in North America is in need of additional study and is not necessarily well understood! Variation in antennal clubs in NC P. tharos can be seen here" - Jeff Pippen

Moved

quite probably yes
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