Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site
Monitoring butterfly populations across Central California for more than 35 years… Phyciodes campestris inornatus
Common Name: Northeastern California Crescent
This is a relatively pale entity with broader median yellow band characteristic of the western Great Basin and Northeastern California populations found with Aster along watercourses in sage brush steppe. It appeared and apparently bred in Sierra Valley in 2008 in a different location from P. c. montana. It is the only P. campestris found between Beckwourth Pass and Hallelujah Junction, a few miles northeast of our Sierra Valley site.
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