Observation date: October 06, 2018
Submitted by: HHowell
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Found in a large brush pile in the open field between the entrance road a.nd Meadow Branch. There were many Asters blooming in and around the brush pile.
Status: Resident
Verified by: dbruce
Verified date: October 08, 2018
Coordinator notes: Pyrgus communis and Pyrgus albescens are indistinguishable from field photographs. The only wholly reliable means of identification is by examination of the male valves using a microscope. However, after having done such examinations for a few years, I have found only P. communis in northeast Tennessee. While I can't make this identification with absolute certainty, there is a very high probability that this is P. communis.
