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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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Colias? - Colias eurytheme - male
Copyright © 2012 Joe Zito

Colias? - Colias eurytheme - Male
Cedar Rapids/ICNC, Linn County, Iowa, USA
June 20, 2012
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Contributed by Joe Zito on 20 June, 2012 - 9:39pm
Last updated 26 September, 2013 - 10:27pm

OK - I've had time to mull it over,
and to compare with a lot of others. Now I don't know why it looked odd to me, other than the wings being maybe more pointed than average. The dark border is a little narrow for an Orange Sulphur, but not unusually so. So, in retrospect it just looks like an Orange Sulphur.

Moved from Sulphurs and Yellows.
… David J. Ferguson, 26 September, 2013 - 10:27pm login or register to post comments

This is an unusual looking specimen
Some features of pattern, and the pointed front wing hint at it being a Dogface (Zerene cesonia), but it's not. The pattern showing through from above shows a narrow forwing band more like Colias philodice. I hesitate to declare "hybrid", but who knows?

Or, it might just be an Orange Sulphur that is a bit off the average.

Moved from Butterflies (excluding skippers).
… David J. Ferguson, 22 August, 2012 - 2:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Joe Zito, 1 July, 2012 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

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