Little Glassywing (new-to-me species)

I appreciate it when the butterflies let me get close enough with only a 60mm lens.

» ID’ed as Pompeius verna or “Little Glassywing”: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ]
» Little Glassywing species pages: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ] [ Wikipedia ]

I submitted this sighting as a “Clouded Skipper,” but received the following notes from the BugGuide ID (Roy Cohutta, Contributing Editor): “Clouded Skipper does not show those distinct spots on the ventral hindwing like this. Instead, Clouded Skipper has a distinctive violet-gray frosting pattern when it is fresh.

“Clouded Skipper usually shows white costal dashes above the forewing sub-apical band.

“In the third photo also see the white just before the antennal clubs.

“These often show a bit of a purplish sheen to them.

“https://alabama.butterflyatlas.usf.edu/static/documents/butterfly-id/aba-id-little-glassywing-20210301.pdf”

So Little Glassywing, it is, a new-to-me species here, though I had one identified at BugGuide in 2017.

Looking back
1 year ago: “Moss. Just Moss.”
2 years ago: “A different perspective [Filler]”
3 years ago: “Wisconsin State Capitol [Filler]”
4 years ago: “Red Admiral”
5 years ago: “Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia)”
6 years ago: “Blue Dasher (male)”
7 years ago: “Silver-spotted Skipper”
8 years ago: “Another August abstract”
9 years ago: “I’m gorgeous!”
10 years ago: “Anyone remember ‘Commander Keen’?”

[ IMG_2698S12x9UB20C15tm :: 60mm ]