Polygonia oreas oreas (formerly Polygonia progne)
posted 06/30/14 - I only knew which anglewing this was (the other one found at Hatton is the lighter satyr comma), because Chris Tenney told me. I think he's proud of the oreas being here. For some reason, outside of our local area the hoary comma, aka zephyr anglewing (Polygonia gracilis zephyrus) is reported. During the Monterey Butterfly Count on June 7, Paul Johnson took a picture of the first reported hoary comma in recent memory, and it's also lighter than shown above. There was much trading of photographs and opinions. I think telling them apart is quite confusing, and the flux of taxonomy shows it confuses the experts, too.
1 comment:
Never saw this before. Interesting about the comma
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