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Pearl Crescent Butterfly

Phyciodes tharon

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Description:

The wings are mostly orange above, with black patches, lines and spots and mostly dark margins. Below the mostly orange forewings have black and cream patches near the outer margin, and the paler hind wings have fine, brown lines (more distinct in females); a pale crescent near the hindwing outer margin is surrounded by a brownish patch. The antenna clubs are usually orange.

Habitat:

Adults fly in moist meadows and fields, along streams and roadsides, and in other open habitats from spring through fall. Alberta south to Arizona and east to New England and Florida; south into Mexico

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