Post by leptraps on Sept 17, 2016 5:44:15 GMT -8
Just off the spreading board: Limenitis arthemis Astyanax (Hybrid).
Both of these were collected in a Bait Trap, The orange just does not come through as bright. 
Kentucky, Scott County
26 August 2016
Kentucky, Scott County
26 August 2016
Kentucky, Scott County
29 August 2016
You can see some dull orange at the tip
of the forewing.
Kentucky, Scott County
29 August 2016
The orange is not as bright and
the camera just does not show
the orange, with or without
the flash
Virginia, Highland County
30 July 1981
This striking specimen was also
collected in a Bait Trap.
In my collection I have 22 specimens of Limenitis arthemis Astyanax from Kentucky and Virginia that are some sort of Hybrid/aberrant. The farther northeast you get in Virginia, the more the Limenitis arthemis arthemis/Astyanax hybrids replace the Limenitis arthemis astyanax/archippus hybrids.
This is the reason I use Bait Traps.
No Waffle House today. We are off to Maysville, Kentucky this morning in search of Limenitis archippus. I will set out a dozen Bait Traps in an area with Willows. We will stop at Slippery Creek for Biscuit's and Gravy a Granny's (A Restaurant in the middle of No Where).
Only in Virginia did I find better collecting and more out there, if you know what I mean.