[TN-Butterflies] Re: Appalachian Brown?
- From: Harold Howell <howellh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dnldhlt@xxxxxxx>, TN Butterflies <TN-Butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:56:18 -0400
Thanks Don, and also Ken Childs. It always pays to consult many sources.
Best regards,
Harold
On 7/20/10 8:45 PM, "dnldhlt@xxxxxxx" <dnldhlt@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I forget where I read it, but if I remember correctly, our subspecies of
> Appalachian Brown has that double spot on the hindwing and stronger spots on
> the forewing than the subspecies shown in Glassberg's Butterflies through
> Binoculars. Look at the Appalachian Brown photo in Kenn Kaufman's Butterflies
> of North America, it looks like your specimen. The less jagged postmedian and
> basal lines below, and the pattern of whitish around the forewing spots, are
> diagnostic.
> Don Holt
> Johnson City, TN
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Howell <howellh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: TN Butterflies <TN-Butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sun, Jul 18, 2010 11:16 pm
> Subject: [TN-Butterflies] Appalachian Brown?
>
> Today Doug Bruce and I visited Hancock County searching for butterflies and
> dragonflies. We found this specimen in the wooded area along the stream
> which forms the margin of a large open grassy picnic area. We have been
> unable to say exactly what species it really is.. Five photos are posted
> here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsquare/4806762241/
>
> We have labeled it as an Appalachian Brown, but the forewing eye-spots look
> more like a "Smoky" Eyed Brown, and the bottom eye-spot is a double rather
> than a single. We did not think it is an Eyed Brown because the hindwing
> basal line is straight, and we are out of the published range of this
> species. We did not think it a Pearly-Eye because it is too small and does
> not have the white lines surrounding the eye-spots on both wings.
>
> Any comments will be appreciated.
>
> Harold Howell
> Rutledge, Grainger County, TN
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Howell <howellh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: TN Butterflies <TN-Butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sun, Jul 18, 2010 11:16 pm
> Subject: [TN-Butterflies] Appalachian Brown?
>
> Today Doug Bruce and I visited Hancock County searching for butterflies and
> dragonflies. We found this specimen in the wooded area along the stream
> which forms the margin of a large open grassy picnic area. We have been
> unable to say exactly what species it really is.. Five photos are posted
> here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsquare/4806762241/
>
> We have labeled it as an Appalachian Brown, but the forewing eye-spots look
> more like a "Smoky" Eyed Brown, and the bottom eye-spot is a double rather
> than a single. We did not think it is an Eyed Brown because the hindwing
> basal line is straight, and we are out of the published range of this
> species. We did not think it a Pearly-Eye because it is too small and does
> not have the white lines surrounding the eye-spots on both wings.
>
> Any comments will be appreciated.
>
> Harold Howell
> Rutledge, Grainger County, TN
>
>
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