"Warmer orange brown above than the olive brown hackberry emperor, these forms [Asterocampa clyton clyton & Asterocampa clyton texana] of the tawny emperor also lack the round, dark eyespots on both the upper and lower surfaces of the forewings that characterize [the Hackberry Emperor]."

Photograph taken with a Nikon D90 using a Nikon 200mm, f/4 micro, manual focus lens.

June 26, 2010.