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Post by rayrard on Oct 19, 2011 10:03:24 GMT -8
The yellow veins running into the black is diagnostic, but if you look on the underside, C. scudderii has more yellow with pink edging and a outlined spot on the HW. C. alexandra are noticeably green to greenish with a white spot (usually with no dark outline).
You may have some alexandra there as they have immaculate yellow and white females (like the second row immculate Colias). i think a few of the smaller ones with very narrow black borders are female scudderii. You would need a look at the undersides.
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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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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 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 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 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 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 9:27:59 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 rayrard on Mar 12, 2011 9:33:18 GMT -8
Would you be able to post some pics of your C. meadi? rayrard, For you, here is my series of C. meadii meadii from CO and MT (left to right - 5 columns), then a pair of C. meadii lemhiensis (VI column), a few of C. meadii elis (VII column), C. canadensis (VIII column), and the single male of C. thula (or is it C. boothii - in the light of after all the discussion here ?) Alexei Thanks alot! I love the orange/green contrast with the ventral surface. I guess these are more orange than the real red ones from overseas.
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Post by rayrard on Mar 8, 2011 6:17:28 GMT -8
rayrard: IMO, C. meadii is quite a common thing in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. I have a plenty of specimens from there in collection. If you cannot go there personally, there are a lot of very friendly pipl in CO., with whom you could exchange specimens. Alexei I'm hoping to get out there again to try for it myself. Nothing beats netting something personally (although some of the few bought specimens I have are Colias). It is tempting sometimes when I see them on EBay Would you be able to post some pics of your C. meadi? Do you have C. scudderi as well? I have one specimen that I'm pretty sure is scudderi, mainly because it was a fresh specimen with wide black borders, and I caught worn C. philodice and fresh C. alexandra in the same meadow.
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Post by rayrard on Mar 7, 2011 5:57:49 GMT -8
Nice specimens! I am a Colias fan myself but only have 2 species in my area of the U.S. I have bought a few boreal Canada forms (C. tyche, C. nastes, C. interior) and caught a few out west (C. alexandra, C. scudderi).
I love the fiery red Colias like your C. draconis and the C. regia. I really want to get C. meadi from the western US. The undersides have a cool contrast with the uppersides.
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Post by rayrard on Mar 2, 2011 7:24:01 GMT -8
I'll join the beetle party Attachments:
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Post by rayrard on Feb 23, 2011 14:26:21 GMT -8
I saw what I believe was aristodemus at a park in the Dominican Republic but of course I was netless at the time. Do you know the spp. on that island? I'm kind of curious about how rare it is.
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Post by rayrard on Feb 23, 2011 14:15:28 GMT -8
nice wasp! I always felt leery about catching the big cicada killers down in SC. They are just so big and angry sounding even when not in the net. The transfer to the killing jar seems like a big risk! I have a few nice hymenoptera I've taken, but more modest ones like Sphex spp., Anoplius spider wasps, and the eastern version of Pepsis: Attachments:
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Post by rayrard on Feb 23, 2011 7:58:51 GMT -8
I collect all sorts of butterflies and moths but I like collecting Hesperiidae. I guess that lumps me somehwere in between lycaenids and micromoths on the insanity/passion scale.
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