It started pouring rain and from inside the house I watched as this Hackberry Emperor sought “shelter from the storm” (with apologies to Dylan). This is only my second encounter with a Hackberry Emperor. This is a much better photograph than the first — http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2016-08-20 — even though: (1) I s*ck at flash photography and (2) this was taken with flash because of low light under cloudy skies and a house-overhang.
Hmm. There are subspecies, so perhaps I should submit to BugGuide, too…
Confirmed at BugGuide as “Asterocampa celtis celtis” or “Hackberry Emperor subspecies celtis”; http://bugguide.net/node/view/1294469
From BugGuide, http://bugguide.net/node/view/126556#range » “[Subspecies Asterocampa celtis antonia - Texas Hackberry] is found [r]oughly west of a line drawn from southeastern Texas, north through Dallas, diagonally across Oklahoma and western Kansas, clipping northeastern Colorado, and ending near Cheyenne in southeastern Wyoming. In a relatively broad zone along this line ssp. antonia blends into ssp. celtis which replaces it eastward.”
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