Observation date: September 05, 2016
Submitted by: Paul Prappas
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: None.
Status: Resident
Verified by: mikefisher
Verified date: December 26, 2017
Coordinator notes: Your ID is correct. The powers that be over the BAMONA website refuse to accept for fact that the coppers in the higher mountain locations of Colorado are a different species (Lycaena florus). In the San Juan Mts. where you took the photo and elsewhere in southern Colorado mountains, this is Lycaena florus sangremar. Northward in the higher mountains is Lycaena florus florus. If you are interested, you can read more about these coppers at http://dspace.library.colostate.edu and search Papilio (New Series) #18 or google search "Papilio (New Series) and go to #18. Mike
