<div dir="ltr">Thanks Harry. So it looks like it's <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial">appalachiensis or something else, but likely not glaucus. My dad reports that it was in present again today.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial">I dug up some photos of some previous sightings in the past:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial">My sister took this photo last year from my yard: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_FygtOi&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wPbNkt6T_H4X7m_PlvSFCGU2a9-csNvfRK2IVMi-mp0&m=MjriGTW3RZfzEXUO2CEoG6vvy4LxB3OEI7zYe1u8XT0&s=B_lCI3ZSHzWOo_ZOqzkaYVqtJkWXCnrcZpAiEqYL_-8&e=">https://goo.gl/FygtOi</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial">And this one is from two years ago at the Kellogg Center in Derby: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_Vj3rm5&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wPbNkt6T_H4X7m_PlvSFCGU2a9-csNvfRK2IVMi-mp0&m=MjriGTW3RZfzEXUO2CEoG6vvy4LxB3OEI7zYe1u8XT0&s=tMLm0i7728YkEivBb0zw1fcC0uMqVRS4LDu-gWEufFU&e=">https://goo.gl/Vj3rm5</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial">Both show more blue on the inner portion of the hindwing. The second photo looks especially like ETS with the extensive blue wash.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial">Peter DeGennaro</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial">Naugatuck</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Anthony Zemba <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:azemba@fhiplan.com" target="_blank">azemba@fhiplan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Excellent thread and discussion here gentlemen (including Harry Pavulaan's and Peter DeGenarro's input as well).<br>
Keep up the good stuff.<br>
Alex: How's things?....it's been awhile....<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:ctleps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">ctleps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ctleps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">ctleps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>] On Behalf Of Grkovich, Alex<br>
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Subject: Re: [Ctleps-l] Dark female E Tiger Swallowtail<br>
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Yes, Rick...But remember that we are talking here about southern New England.....not the southern Appalachians.<br>
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In eastern Massachusetts, we start seeing these large non-glaucus types (the males) in early July.......and we see large females in good to excellent condition in late July/early August (I collected one recently - about 10 days ago - near West Newbury, MA...so a somewhat worn "appalachiensis" female in mid-August is not to be unexpected.<br>
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Examine the phenotype of this female closely - wingshape (FW in particular), that strong yellow FW bar at the cell-end, the characters of the blue on the HW etc. Then compare to Appy female on the BofA and in Pavulaan and Wrght's TILS papers on Appy.<br>
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Again, I do not think this is a glaucus female.....<br>
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Alex<br>
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Subject: Re: [Ctleps-l] Dark female E Tiger Swallowtail<br>
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But isn't appalachiensis univoltine?<br>
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Grkovich, Alex <<a href="mailto:AG@balatmp.com">AG@balatmp.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:AG@balatmp.com">AG@balatmp.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
Peter,<br>
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That looks more like a female Appalachiensis..............I don't think that is glaucus. Check the comparative photos of female glaucus and appalachiensis on the (Welcome to) Butterflies of America.....<br>
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Subject: [Ctleps-l] Dark female E Tiger Swallowtail<br>
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8/17 - Naugatuck yard - I had a dark female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail today on buddleia when I came home from work. They are annual in my yard.<br>
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