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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) » Dogfaces (Zerene) » Southern Dogface - Hodges#4224 (Zerene cesonia)
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Caterpillar -? - Zerene cesonia
Copyright © 2011 Kurt Schaefer

Caterpillar -? - Zerene cesonia
8 miles North of Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma, USA
September 24, 2008
?? Looks like Photo#578009, Prickly-pear borer ??
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Contributed by Kurt Schaefer on 12 November, 2011 - 6:43pm
Last updated 29 November, 2011 - 9:45pm

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… john and jane balaban, 29 November, 2011 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

I think it is Zerene cesonia
with the black reduced. Looks like it's on a Senna of some sort too? (a Legume anyway) It is a common species most years in Oklahoma.

The only other option I think would be Phoebis (mostly likely P. sennae so far north), but I don't think that is as good of a match.

It doesn't look like a borer to me.
… David J. Ferguson, 29 November, 2011 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Dave and John and Jane Balaban,
Could be, maybe I'll come cross another, if it rains.
… Kurt Schaefer, 29 November, 2011 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

Our first thought is a butterfly in the Pieridae
but we didn't find a match. Wonder if it is a relative of Zerene
… john and jane balaban, 12 November, 2011 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Maybe a stretch,
?? Looks like Photo#578009, Prickly-pear borer ??
… Kurt Schaefer, 18 November, 2011 - 6:48am login or register to post comments

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