Not your usual butterfly image [Filler]

This was taken a few days ago and although I know what it is, I submitted it to both of the sites I use for identifications because it’s actually a pretty good ventral view of a dark-morph female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

From the “identification” information on the BugGuide species page: “A dark-morph (C) occurs in females through much of range, especially in southern states. The stripes are still faintly visible from some angles (D).” Most butterfly and moth images are from the top (with wings down) to get the top surfaces of the wings, or from the side (with wings up) to get the underneath surfaces, I think I got the “from some angles” with this image because the Tiger’s stripes are visible here.

» ID’ed as Papilio glaucus or “Eastern Tiger Swallowtail”: [ Butterflies and Moths of North America ] [ BugGuide ]
» Species pages: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ] [ UK Butterflies* ]
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* A single specimen was captured by a boy at Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland in late September (or early October) 1932 and is believed to have been accidentally imported from North America.

Looking back
1 year ago: “Water break view”
2 years ago: “Food for the journey…”
3 years ago: “New-to-me dragonfly”
4 years ago: “Transport problem solved!”
5 years ago: “Another Vanessa”
6 years ago: “Benjamin Harrison Presidential Home”
7 years ago: “Res Hall guardian”
8 years ago: “A new skipper!”
9 years ago: “#600 is a new one!”
10 years ago: “The Hand of God?”

[ IMG_2763S84x80Atm :: 60mm ]

17th August 2021 17th Aug 21