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small bayside hairstreak - Strymon melinus - female
Copyright © 2012 john and jane balaban

small bayside hairstreak - Strymon melinus - Female
Five Rivers, Spanish Fort, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
July 27, 2012
This was in the shrubs above the six-lined racerunners. gathering_2012

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small bayside hairstreak - Strymon melinus - female small bayside hairstreak - Strymon melinus - female
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 7 August, 2012 - 7:50pm
Last updated 5 January, 2014 - 2:21pm

Moved
Moved from Hairstreaks.

Nancy's photo clinched it, particularly seeing a peek of dorsal HW. I wanted to be sure, because one bad ID just gets duplicated. To that end, I found some suspect ID's in this genus, in addition to the one of mine. I probably should go through them when I get some more time :)
Robert
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 11 August, 2012 - 8:09pm

Gray Hairstreak?
For what it's worth, we think this is a Gray Hairstreak The angle is such that you are seeing the dorsal of the left hindwing and the ventral of the right hindwing.

Loren and Babs Padelford
Bellevue, NE
… Loren & Babs Padelford, 11 August, 2012 - 2:25pm

 
Nancy sent us a lateral image to add to ours
Does that help?
… john and jane balaban, 11 August, 2012 - 6:53pm

Good News - Bad News
Bad news - I do not recognize this hairstreak. It looks sorta like one of the Tailed Blues, just missing a bunch of spots :(

Good News - Browsing through all the hairstreaks, I found a White-M Hairstreak, I had incorrectly ID'd as a Gray :)
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 8 August, 2012 - 1:25pm

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