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Post by rayrard on May 27, 2011 9:27:59 GMT -8
Just sharing my collecting haul from this spring. Most of this is self-collected stuff from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but I have some late season skippers I got from another collector in here too Attachments:
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Post by nomihoudai on May 27, 2011 9:36:55 GMT -8
You seem to like Hesperiidae and Lycaenidae  They look great ! The non-blue Lycaenidae species look awesome. Great catch. |
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Post by rayrard on May 27, 2011 9:40:38 GMT -8
Here's the list of ID's, roughly left column to right
Celatrina ladon
Celastring lucia
Celastrina idella
Celastrina neglectamajor
Celastrina neglecta (SC)
Phyciodes tharos
Pieris rapae
Polygonia comma
Satyrium favonius (SC)
Callosamia promethea (ex-pupa pair)
Anthocharis midea
Vanessa virginiensis
Colias eurytheme (white female and male with yellow/orange)
Colias philodice (pair)
Poanes hobomok (m)
Poanes zabulon (m)
Callophrys augustinus
Callophrys polios
Callophrys henrici
Callophrys niphon
Callophrys irus
Callophrys gryneus
Callophrys hesselli
Lycaena phlaeas
Thorybes pylades
Actias luna
Hesperia sassacus
Hesperia metea
Hesperia leonardus
Hesperia meskei (m's)
Atrynopsis hianna
Problema bulenta (m)
Poanes viator (pair)
Thorybes confusus (SC)
Pyrgus centaureae wyandot (old specimen)
Erynnis icelus
Erynnis brizo (pair)
Erynnis horacius (pair)
Erynnis juvenalis
Erynnis baptisiae
Erynnis lucilius? (like tiny baptisiae)
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Post by rayrard on May 27, 2011 9:42:37 GMT -8
You seem to like Hesperiidae and Lycaenidae They look great ! The non-blue Lycaenidae species look awesome. Great catch. yeah, my targets were early season Callophrys and Celastrinas. I've never collected up here so it was a blast. |
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Post by nusferatus369 on May 27, 2011 14:29:23 GMT -8
tel me if i am wrong but i thing you erynnis martialis is one below the inciselia gryneus.
If is the one i try to find it near Ottawa last week end.
Rare specise over here. Nicce catch.
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Post by rayrard on May 27, 2011 19:49:36 GMT -8
tel me if i am wrong but i thing you erynnis martialis is one below the inciselia gryneus. If is the one i try to find it near Ottawa last week end. Rare specise over here. Nicce catch. it's not martialis as I have a nice male martialis from NC and it's larger and much more boldly marked. The one below the C. hesselli (like gryneus) is just like the E. baptisiae, but smaller. I know of no way to distinguish a E. lucilius (Columbine Duskywing) from the Wild Indigo (E. baptisiae). E. martialis is a true rarity however. It seems to have declined in the eastern US significantly. |
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Post by leptraps on Jun 7, 2011 4:01:43 GMT -8
The specimen of Pyrgus centaureae wyandot, where and when was it collected?
An old specimen? How old is it?
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Post by rayrard on Jun 7, 2011 13:14:23 GMT -8
The specimen of Pyrgus centaureae wyandot, where and when was it collected? An old specimen? How old is it? Green Ridge SF, WV, from 1958. |
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Post by jhyatt on Jun 18, 2011 13:50:53 GMT -8
Hmmm.. The male P. bulenta is smaller than the viators. Are you sure it's not an A. delaware? They can look a lot alike.
At any rate, good haul! Nice to find that someone else likes the skippers and Lycaenids.
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Post by rayrard on Jun 19, 2011 18:44:56 GMT -8
The Delaware's I have in my collection have more extensive orange above and thin black borders. The P. viator are always the largest of the folded-wing skippers. The P. bulenta here matches my other male bulenta from SC, and are larger than a male Delaware
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Post by jhyatt on Jun 21, 2011 6:03:45 GMT -8
The Delaware's I have in my collection have more extensive orange above and thin black borders. The P. viator are always the largest of the folded-wing skippers. The P. bulenta here matches my other male bulenta from SC, and are larger than a male Delaware That's bulenta, all right. On the Georgia coast where I take both bulenta and viator, the bulentas generally run bigger than the viators... an occasional female viator being larger than a male bulenta, though. But I've mistaken many a big delaware for a male bulenta, till I get it in the net. They can look a lot alike to me on the pickerel weed. |
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Post by rayrard on Jun 21, 2011 9:05:12 GMT -8
The Delaware's I have in my collection have more extensive orange above and thin black borders. The P. viator are always the largest of the folded-wing skippers. The P. bulenta here matches my other male bulenta from SC, and are larger than a male Delaware That's bulenta, all right. On the Georgia coast where I take both bulenta and viator, the bulentas generally run bigger than the viators... an occasional female viator being larger than a male bulenta, though. But I've mistaken many a big delaware for a male bulenta, till I get it in the net. They can look a lot alike to me on the pickerel weed. Looking at my viator, it seems like all my females are larger than all of the other swamp skippers, with the female Palatka being slightly smaller. Female Rare's are almost as big but the males are smaller. By the way, have you came across any of the rarest swamp skippers in the southeast? I'm talking about Duke's (I have one male), Palatka (I have 2 females), Two-spotted (bimacula, none from the south), Palmetto (none), Aaron's (none from the south) and Berry's (none). I find Yehl, Broadwing, Oligoria, and Byssus quite common. I've found a handful of bulenta localities. |
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They look great ! The non-blue Lycaenidae species look awesome. Great catch.
