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Gray Hairstreak - Hodges#4336 (Strymon melinus)
Photo#656028
Copyright © 2012
Matt Edmonds
hairdtreak -
Strymon melinus
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Pinellas County, Florida, USA
June 11, 2012
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Contributed by
Matt Edmonds
on 12 June, 2012 - 7:57am
Last updated 3 May, 2018 - 4:30pm
Moved
Moved from
Frass
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Matt Edmonds
, 3 May, 2018 - 4:29pm
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Frassed
Moved from
Gray Hairstreak
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Matt Edmonds
, 29 April, 2018 - 10:27pm
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Moved
Moved from
Red-banded Hairstreak
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Ben Coulter
, 20 August, 2012 - 10:46am
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Gray Hairstreak?
This looks like a Gray Hairstreak (
Strymon melinus
) to me.
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Ben Coulter
, 17 August, 2012 - 8:50am
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I agree that the stripes look much more like a grey hairstreak, but the color of the wings look way more like a red-banded to me.
I'll post it in the forum to get more opinions.
Thanks Ben.
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Matt Edmonds
, 17 August, 2012 - 9:18am
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The markings are wrong for Red-banded
It is lacking the thick red bands and zigzag-shaped postmedial markings of Red-banded.
Compare these images of Gray Hairstreak:
And these of Red-banded Hairstreak:
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Ben Coulter
, 17 August, 2012 - 1:40pm
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