At last i got around to making graphics from some Euphydryas pics taken a few years ago. There are 9 of them now at the front of my flickr photostream (and at the end of the Euphydryas album). All of

On this topic of Plebejus, here is a link to a past specimen comparison graphic https://flic.kr/p/2c41FZz Nature shots are nice and fun to get but for comparisons, specimen shots under controlled cond

A few days ago I visited Baril Creek, SW of Calgary, Alberta to play with the butterflies. While processing the photos I took, I was surprised to see that I had photographed Plebejus atrapraetextus ra

In 2003 I bought my first home computer and first digital camera. I used them to produce some crude pics illustrating some apparent geographic variation in Yukon Colias christina Here are male and fem

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Another old pocket camera pic uploaded to flickr; showing some dorsal color variation in British Columbia https://flic.kr/p/2nxJoVK

I put some fresh annotation on an old pocket camera pic from 2004. Here is topotype Euphydryas bernadetta wenatchee from Washington state. Alternative taxonomic hypotheses: E. bernadetta veazieae, E.

Today while looking through some specimen boxes, I noticed some nice specimens of Euphydryas editha taylori. So I held a camera over them and made a digital plate--- https://flic.kr/p/2nvWT4g

I vote for Celastrina. In addition to what Bob pointed out, note also the dark terminal line on the ventral hind wing. The icarioides subspecies blackmorei and montis do have very lightly marked ventr

Mention of Pyrgus centaureae by Leroy caused me to remember that I had photographed a few old specimens recently and not yet put them into a graphic. I just fixed that and you can see the images here:

So far this has been the most pathetic butterfly season I have seen since I started playing with the little critters in 1971.

Here is a link to pics of a small population sample of Pieris marginalis tremblayi from near the northern limit of the Rocky Mountains in the pacific northwest of our continent at ca. 59 degrees north

At least some populations of Pieris marginalis in southern British Columbia have at least two broods. Here are pics of a couple of spring specimens: https://flic.kr/p/2np1wMR and here are pics of a co

Many years ago, before I learned to make digital 'plates', I used the old fashioned method of putting some specimens together in real life to photo them as comparison images. One such primitive graphi

Old pics of a boldly marked male Pieris angelika ---- https://flic.kr/p/2noGMyt

Some old but nice specimen pics of Pieris marginalis marginalis https://flic.kr/p/2noNDrH from the Klesilkwa River valley of southwestern British Columbia

12 years ago I shot a bunch of Pieris specimens and cropped the pics for use in graphics aka 'digital plates'. Some I got done and uploaded to flickr, eg. https://flic.kr/p/JfMLHz https://flic.kr/p/28

Found some old graphics that illustrate some variation in Polygonia gracilis. dorsal: https://flic.kr/p/2noaPHV ventral: https://flic.kr/p/2noaPkF

More old pics worth sharing: https://flic.kr/p/2no1AiF I have seen literature that claims C. freija freija of the palearctic also flies across the nearctic. After comparing specimens and images; I can

Yes, sympatry of taxa is one reason why calling them one species (tullia or california) does not work for me. According to maps that Steve Kohler shared with me long ago, western Montana also has Coen