Brown Velvet
by Paul Rebmann
Title
Brown Velvet
Artist
Paul Rebmann
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A dorsal view of a male Carolina satyr butterfly showing the darker androconium, scales with scent glands, that have the appearance of brown velvet. These dark patches help differentiate Hermeuptychia sosybius from the similar and newly described species Hermeuptychia inticata.
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Carolina satyrs are found in shaded, grassy areas such as hammocks and shrubby disturbed sites throughout Florida. The range extends throughout the southeastern United States as far west as Texas and Oklahoma, north into Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, and eastward south of the Ohio River into Maryland.
Host plants are grasses including St. Augustine grass, signalgrass, and sour paspalum.
(Subject description from the artist's Wild Florida Photo website www.wildflphoto.com)
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May 3rd, 2014
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