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Eastern Panthea

Panthea furcilla

Photo by Jacob Gorneau
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Description:

I'm not sure if this is a melanic form or a melanistic form of the Eastern Panthea, though it is definitely a darker phenotype. The third photo shows a typically patterned Panthea furcilla from the same night, sharply contrasting that of the darker variation.

Reference Links:

http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/leprefs/157-1701-1-PB.pdf

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