Today I found an area where there were at least 10 Clouded Yellows flying
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I take it that the backlit shot shows the outer black forewing band to be quite broad all the way down in helice whereas in Pale/Berger's it would taper quite abruptly?padfield wrote: Surely a pale clouded yellow must turn up soon with all these clouded yellows. If and when it does, I'm sure it will stand out like a sore thumb! I think I can honestly say I've never had any doubt in the field between crocea and hyale/alfacariensis - the only difficulty comes in separating the latter two.
Yes. In hyalensis (my word for alfy and hyale) the dark border tapers to outside the row of pd spots:David M wrote:I take it that the backlit shot shows the outer black forewing band to be quite broad all the way down in helice whereas in Pale/Berger's it would taper quite abruptly?
For those of us a bit behind the curve, your more recent post has helped a lotpadfield wrote:very obviously not pale clouded or Berger's