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not quite Northern or Pearl (Phyciodes not quite Northern or Pearl)
Photo#523956
Copyright © 2011
Peter Cristofono
Northern Crescent -
Phyciodes
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Arlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 3, 2011
Antennal clubs are orange.
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Contributed by
Peter Cristofono
on 3 June, 2011 - 6:38pm
Last updated 8 September, 2013 - 2:25pm
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.
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Joshua Stuart Rose
, 8 September, 2013 - 2:25pm
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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
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Joshua Stuart Rose
, 8 September, 2013 - 2:40pm
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Moved
Moved from
Butterflies (excluding skippers)
.
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Peter Cristofono
, 5 June, 2011 - 8:30pm
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quite probably yes
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David J. Ferguson
, 3 June, 2011 - 11:42pm
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