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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) » Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc. (Nymphalinae) » Melitaeini » Checkerspots (Euphydryas) » Anicia Checkerspot - Hodges#4519 (Euphydryas anicia) » Anicia Checkerspot (Euphydryas anicia wecoeut)
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Checkerspot caterpillar - Euphydryas anicia
Copyright © 2012 dhilkey

Checkerspot caterpillar - Euphydryas anicia
Sheephead Basin, Moffat County, Colorado, USA
April 21, 2012
Found in NW Colorado. I believe I've narrowed the id down to Euphydryas editha or E. chalcedona. The descriptions are similar. Any help with id is appreciated.
Thanks.
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Contributed by dhilkey on 28 April, 2012 - 3:09pm
Last updated 11 September, 2013 - 11:47am

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… David J. Ferguson, 11 September, 2013 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

Euphydryas caterpillar
This last instar is Euphydryas anicia wecoeut. They have somewhat unique larvae as compared to other populations of E. anicia, E. chalcedona, or E. editha. See

http://www.raisingbutterflies.org/e-anicia-wecoeut-immatures-pho/

This butterfly was described by Mike Fisher, Steve Spomer, and Jim Scott in 2006 and is also discussed in Butterflies of Colorado, Part 3.
… Todd Stout, 7 September, 2013 - 12:35am login or register to post comments

both Euphydryas editha & E. anicia are common in Moffat County,
and I don't have enough experience with each population there to know how to tell the caterpillars apart. I'm going to put them under the genus heading for now.

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