Milbert’s Tortoiseshell, Aglais milberti <LEP124>
Tortoisshells have decidedly different upper and lower surfaces. Milbert’s above is chocolate brown with a
two-toned band-- yellow inside, orange outer-- orange basal spots, and blue
dots in the dark margin. Below there
is no such fire-rim pattern, just a dark brown basal half, tan band, and dark
border. Thus it blends exactly into
tree bark. It is widespread in North
America, here shown on western sneezeweed. |