My young brother caught this butterfly for me yesterday. It is evidently some kind of Colias, but I am not sure what kind and, as yet, I have been unable to identify it. Because of the color of its wings and the familiar white and brown markings in the center, it identifies itself as some kind of clouded butterfly. Most likely a clouded yellow, but I do not know what specific species. If anyone knows what species it is, I would be glad to hear.
It looks very much like a Colias aurorina (Greek clouded butterfly) that I posted some time ago, but it does not have the yellow color that the other posseses. The unique patterns on its closed wings are evident in the picture, but it has a fairly strong flight, and I was unable to take a good picture of its open wings. I have heard that these are hard to photograph with open wings. There is one below, but it is rather blurry. When its wings are open, the upper ones are white with a small black spot in the center and wide black edges that have at least two small white markings, and one pale yellow marking. I was unable to closely examine the lower wings due to the butterfly's constant flight, but I could see that the lower wings are also white, with black edges that contain a fairly large orange marking and at least two small white ones.
July 20, 2007
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Hey you! Lovely blog. Lot's of cool pictures and poems and so on. Aww.. you put me on your read list. Thank you. I will add this to my links so i remember to stop by!
ReplyDeleteLove ya,
Jocelyn