Help me identify this mystery butterfly! (Or moth!)
It looks like a cloudywing or duskywing butterfly to me, but there's absolutely nothing in Fielding's Butterflies of North America like it. Is it a rare butterfly that followed the Painted Ladies north when they migrated by the billions... or is it a moth? Two views of the same moth for your consideration.
EDIT: Well, heckydarn! I was hoping this was some sort of rare duskywing, but someone over at inaturalist ID'd it as the moth Euclidia ardita, which doesn't have an English common name. At least it's a rare moth, this is the third picture of one on Flickr.
Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, in the Coast Range hills near Winters, California. April 20, 2019.
Help me identify this mystery butterfly! (Or moth!)
It looks like a cloudywing or duskywing butterfly to me, but there's absolutely nothing in Fielding's Butterflies of North America like it. Is it a rare butterfly that followed the Painted Ladies north when they migrated by the billions... or is it a moth? Two views of the same moth for your consideration.
EDIT: Well, heckydarn! I was hoping this was some sort of rare duskywing, but someone over at inaturalist ID'd it as the moth Euclidia ardita, which doesn't have an English common name. At least it's a rare moth, this is the third picture of one on Flickr.
Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, in the Coast Range hills near Winters, California. April 20, 2019.