Northern Cloudywing

Thorybes pylades

"Three very similar species of cloudywings inhabit eastern North America ... The northern cloudywing ... is the most common and widely distributed. We find it regularly in the Houston area. T. pylades is dark chocolate brown above and below, with a series of small triangular, translucent spots across the forewing."

"Southern Cloudywings have more extensive and aligned spots than do Northern Cloudywings. Note especially the 2nd spot from the FW margin. The spot is prominent and hourglassed shaped in Southern Cloudywings but is usually a small dot or absent in Northern Cloudywings ... Northern has a dark brown or dark gray 'face'." (Glassberg, p. 150.)

Photograph taken with a Nikon D90, using a Nikon 300mm, f/4.5 micro manual focus lens.

April 15, 2011.