On 8/4/2016 7:27 AM, Dean Hansen wrote:
Hi Moose,
I think that your fritillary is more likely a crescent, genus Phyciodes. Try Google Images for "Field
Crescent". You'll get that species and several others. Phyciodes is a genus that few butterfliers want to attempt to
figure out--it's a very complex group of closely related and variable species.
Dean seems, as usual, to have nailed it. None of the images on a search is exactly the same, but most are very similar,
the variation mostly in the specific distribution of the red-oranges.
Thanks Dean!
Elucidated Moose
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