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Crex Meadows Butterflies... Harris' Checkerspot
Harris' Checkerspot
Chlosyne harrisii
Wing span: 1 7/16 - 2 inches (3.6 - 5.1 cm).
Caterpillar hosts: Flat-topped white aster (Aster umbellatus).
Females lay eggs in clusters under host plant leaves. Caterpillars feed on leaves communally in a web.
Habitat: Moist areas such as marshes, bog edges, pastures, and meadows.
Click image to see it flipped over for easier viewing
Picture taken June 12, 2007
With the wings open, the Harris' Checkerspot looks much like the other Checkerspots found in Crex Meadows. A view of the under-side of the wings will allow a positive identification, most notably the row of crescent moon markings on the hind-wing fall along the whole of the hindwing, where on the Silvery Checkerspot, this row is broken for two moon spots above the 3/4 moon spot.
Picture to the left and below taken June 14, 2007
These two pictures are of the same butterfly. I included the picture below because it shows a bit of the upper wings and somewhat how the crescents are very similar from above.
| Kingdom | Animalia | (Animals) |
| Phylum | Arthropoda | (Arthropods) |
| Superclass | Hexapoda | (Hexapods) |
| Class | Insecta | (Insects) |
| Subclass | Pterygota | (Winged Insects) |
| Order | Lepidoptera | (Butterflies and Moths) |
| Superfamily | Papilionoidea | (Butterflies) |
| Family | Nymphalidae | (Brushfooted Butterflies) |
| Subfamily | Nymphalinae | (Crescents, Checkerspots, Anglewings, etc) |
| Genus | Chlosyne | |
| Species | harrisii | (Harris' Checkerspot) |