[TN-Butterflies] Appalachian Brown?

  • From: Harold Howell <howellh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: TN Butterflies <TN-Butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:16:26 -0400

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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