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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows (Pieridae) » Sulphurs and Yellows (Coliadinae) » Colias » Orange Sulphur - Hodges#4210 (Colias eurytheme)
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Sulfur - Colias eurytheme - male
Copyright © 2011 Andrew Meeds

Sulfur - Colias eurytheme - Male
Ledges State Park, Boone County, Iowa, USA
July 31, 2011
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Colias philodice? This was hanging around with lots of P. rapae
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Contributed by Andrew Meeds on 31 July, 2011 - 10:39pm
Last updated 6 August, 2011 - 8:21am

Moved
Moved from Colias.
… Andrew Meeds, 6 August, 2011 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

Looks like a male Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
Based on the size/shape of the black band along the outer margin showing through from above.
… Kelly Fiegle, 6 August, 2011 - 7:04am login or register to post comments

Hard to Say
If I'd seen it down here, I'd say C. eurytheme but outside my fauna it's too close to call. Where both exist, there can hybridize. Betros probably knows them better.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 2 August, 2011 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

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