Observation date: August 10, 2023
Submitted by: Buddy Mays
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Photographed in mud summer, perching on every flower it could find.
Status: Resident
Verified by: Ken Davenport
Verified date: March 28, 2025
Coordinator notes: This should be nominate vestris, a skipper I have only collected 2 of. I have found the eastern Euphyes vestris metacomet to be much more common and widespread in the Eastern USA and subspecies kiowah in the Rocky Mountains may actually be a distinct species. The relative lack of marks is in itself distinctive -Ken Davenport In the eastern USA, metacomet can be hard to distinguish from Polites egeremet and otho...so hard to ID they have been called the 3 Witches. I had to deal with them in Arkansas last year in late May and early June.-Ken Davenport
