[TN-Butterflies] Re: Dion? Williamson Co ID help

  • From: Bart Jones <bjones7777@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rconnorsphoto@xxxxxxx>, <tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:54:18 -0500

Hi Richard,

Not that I'm the Dion expert by any means, just seeing my first the other day 
LBL, but your photo looks way too yellow for a Dion and I don't really see any 
rays extending across the hindwing.  It looks like a Delaware to me, but since 
you said it was good-sized, I might propose a male Sachem.  At Reelfoot Lake 
the male Sachems are especially pale and bright like this one.  If you look 
very carefully at them, you see a very pale chevron, just a shade lighter than 
the background color and the darker spot typical in the middle of the trailing 
edge, but it is only JUST darker than the background.  Hopefully someone else 
will have some more ideas, but these are my thoughts.

 

Gotta love the skipper puzzles.

 

Bart Jones

Memphis, Shelby County
 


From: Rconnorsphoto@xxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:09:57 -0400
Subject: [TN-Butterflies] Dion? Williamson Co ID help
To: tn-butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Please have a look at this and confirm if possible, Dion Skipper, today 6/22 in 
Williamson County. If confirmed would be BAMONA record.
This was a good size skipper, did not get a look at or photo of top side. 
 
http://www.pbase.com/rconnorsnaturephoto/image/125853334
 
Richard Connors
Nashville                                         
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