Gorgon Copper, Lycaena gorgon
<LEP68>
A California copper that is associated with wild buckwheat, as are
many gossamer-winged butterflies. The
male is purplish brown, but the female shown here has a complicated pattern
of pale yellow-orange, black spots, and dusky brown borders and patches. Light orange hoops run along the lower
margin of the hindwing. Shown here
nectaring on false dandelion. |