Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis)

Silvery Checkerspot
Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis)
Fermilab, near site 37
DuPage County, Illinois 
27 June 2009

Silvery Checkerspots are common in West Chicago Prairie, just a few miles north of Fermilab.  So I have always been on the lookout for them here but have never found them at Fermilab.  It was Bob Lootens who not only spotted this one but photographed it, a new species record for the Fermilab site.  These look much like a large, female Pearl Crescent, but a key identifcation feature is that they have the white center in the middle black spot near the margin of the hind wing. 

Silvery Checkerspot
Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis)
Fermilab, near site 37
DuPage County, Illinois 
27 June 2009

Underside of same individual as above.

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