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Viceroy - Limenitis archippus
Copyright © 2013 Cliff Ivy

Viceroy - Limenitis archippus
Little Lee creek, Nicut, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA
July 18, 2013
Viceroy on water willow on creek edge. Subspecies ?

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Contributed by Cliff Ivy on 20 July, 2013 - 11:20pm

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Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 20 July, 2013 - 11:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks David.
Your recognition of subspecies is very helpful. I have noted several colorful Viceroys in AR and OK this year and wanted to confirm that I wasn't missing the subspecies.
… Cliff Ivy, 21 July, 2013 - 10:42am login or register to post comments

 
Yours are richly colored,
and they might be leaning a just a tad toward subspecies watsoni, but they don't really fit that subspecies. The line between subspecies is very fuzzy, with large grey areas where individuals often are intermediate, or may not even match any defined subspecies quite properly. The ones here in the Albuquerque area are variable, and lie somewhere on the fringe between subspecies archippus and obsoleta.
… David J. Ferguson, 22 July, 2013 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

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