Wow – that is a good comparison. You can see what everyone is talking about when they mention that philodice is lemon yellow. The eriphyle borders on orange.

 

Love the Riker mount, also. My original collection as a child was entirely mounted this way. Too bad some hood at the high school stole off with it…

 

Mark

 

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This morning I found on the internet a small but nice side by side comparison of male eriphyle vs philodice. eriphyle from Washington state, philodice from New York state

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/collection/featured-collections/irving-finkelstein/white-and-sulphur-butterflies/

 

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Norbert Kondla

Calgary, Alberta, Canada  (elevation 1060 metres asl)

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