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 Phyciodes vesta Vesta Crescent

Underside of forewing with a series of orange postmedial spots.

 Phyciodes phaon Phaon Crescent

Orange patches on forewing above and below more extensive than in pictus; dark brown mottling more of hindwing below more extensive than in pictus.

 Phyciodes tharos Pearl Crescent

Difficult to separate from cocyta; males usually with a black antennal club; orange areas on hindwing above generally less open relative to cocyta; species generally more southern and eastern than cocyta.

 Phyciodes cocyta Northern Crescent

Difficult to separate from tharos; male antennal club usually orange; orange areas of hindwing above generally more open relative to tharos; species generally more northern and western than tharos.

 Phyciodes batesii Tawny Crescent

Underside of forewing with black patches on inner margin and costa larger and darker than in cocyta and tharos; hindwing below clear yellow-tan without brown margin patch.

 Phyciodes pratensis Field Crescent

Wings above dark with light orange-yellow patches; costa of forewing below with a light patch as indicated by the arrow.

 Phyciodes pictus Painted Crescent

Forewing dark with contrasting yellow postmedial patch; underside of forewing with yellowish apical patch; hindwing below all yellowish; most like batesii, but ranges do not overlap with picta in the southwestern United States not the north and east.

 Phyciodes orseis California Crescent

Forewing shape as in mylitta; restricted to northern half of California and southern Oregon; because of variability can be separated from mylitta only on a population by population basis although orseis is commonly larger and darker.

 Phyciodes pallida Pale Crescent

Forewing shape as in mylitta; not always separable from mylitta; forewing below inner margin usually with a dark patch usually missing in mylitta.

 Phyciodes mylitta Mylitta Crescent

Outer margin of forewing straight or slightly incurved, not evenly rounded.