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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters (Lycaenidae) » Blues (Polyommatinae) » Plebejus » Cotundra Blue - Hodges#4381.1 (Plebejus cotundra)
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Plebejus cotundra - female
Copyright © 2015 Mike Hofmann

Plebejus cotundra - Female
Slopes of Colorado Mines Peak, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
August 29, 2015
Needs a guide page. Taken from around 12,000'. Not uncommon but swamped by other blues Plebejus glandon and Plebejus shasta.
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Contributed by Mike Hofmann on 12 September, 2015 - 7:03pm
Last updated 15 September, 2015 - 12:12am

Hi Mike,
I'm trying to add information for the guide page, but I can't find the paper that elevated Plebejus cotundra to full species status. Do you have it?
… Kyhl Austin, 12 March, 2016 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks like this publication e
Looks like this publication elevates to a full species

THE BUTTERFLIES OF COLORADO, Part 4, Riodinidae,
Subfamily Riodininae and Lycaenidae, Subfamily Lycaeninae.
Metalmarks, Coppers, Hairstreaks and Blues
by Michael S. Fisher
… Mike Hofmann, 13 March, 2016 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
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… Kyhl Austin, 14 March, 2016 - 7:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Kyhl Austin, 15 September, 2015 - 12:12am login or register to post comments

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