2019 March 23

 

   Comma problems.  Jeremy Tatum writes: Some of us can by now often (not always!) manage to distinguish between Satyr and Green Commas – but comma problems are not over.  Away from Victoria, we can encounter other commas.  For example there is the one with two-shades-of-grey undersides, and a V-shaped comma mark.  We have usually called them “Zephyr” Comma, which may or may not be a full species distinct from the Hoary Comma.  But we also have to contend with possible Oreas Comma.  Mark Wynja sends photographs of an Oreas Comma taken at Little Mountain, Parksville, March 21.   It has a V-shaped “comma” mark?   Is this indicative of Oreas?  Or do both Oreas and “Zephyr” have it?

Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas (Lep.: Nymphalidae)

Mark Wynja

Oreas Comma Polygonia oreas (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Mark Wynja