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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) » Coppers (Lycaeninae) » Lycaena » Edith's Copper - Hodges#4254 (Lycaena editha)
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Lycaenid at Old Faithful - Lycaena editha
Copyright © 2007 Tanya Dapkey

Lycaenid at Old Faithful - Lycaena editha
Old Faithful, Park County, Wyoming, USA
July 14, 2007
Amazing that anything can survive there, Lycaenids everywhere on the stonecrop, they never would sit still long enough for me to get a lateral view
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Contributed by Tanya Dapkey on 26 July, 2007 - 8:51am
Last updated 17 June, 2014 - 7:00pm

Moved
Moved from Arrowhead Blue.
… Nick Block, 17 June, 2014 - 7:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Gossamer Winged Butterflies.
… Nick Block, 25 November, 2008 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

Arctic Blue?
Picture makes it hard to be sure, but it looks like Arctic Blue (Plebejus glandon). The only other possibility with that pattern is an Arrowhead Blue (Glaucopsyche piasus), but that just doesn't feel right.
… Nick Block, 26 July, 2007 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

 
Arrowhead
Enlarging the image makes it clear that this is actually an Arrowhead Blue.
… Nick Block, 25 November, 2008 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

 
ID?
I have a hard time believing it is an Arrowhead Blue. I don't recall the Old Faithful area looking like appropriate habitat as there are not lupines everywhere. Lycaena editha seems much more likely to me for the image and the habitat.
… Mike Hofmann, 16 June, 2014 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks good to me
I agree. That species didn't even come to mind when I saw these photos long ago. Thanks for the catch.
… Nick Block, 17 June, 2014 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

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