interesting Las Cruces, New Mexico specimens

[The Arthurs]

Hi. This is Noah Arthur. I agree that my specimen is an unusual Papilio zelicaon. Over the last week, I was in Las Cruces, New Mexico and got many chances to collect butterflies and moths. It is a great year there, with the desert all green and flowery, and fields of butterflies as far as I can see. Over the week, I caught two particularly interesting specimens. One is Junonia genoveva, probably subspecies nigrosuffusa. 



The other is very strange. I caught it flopping around like Coenonympha tullia in a field of Pontia protodice and Colias eurytheme. At first, I thought it was an Oeneis, but on closer examination, I noticed a faded pattern just like Pontia protodice on it, but its wings are brownish and all the fur on its body is black. Its eyes were green at capture (like P. protodice), but faded after it died. I am totally stumped by this one. What do you think it is?

  
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Thanks for your help on my various identification problems.        -- Noah                                                                                    
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