Miami Blue - Cyclargus thomasi

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Copyright © 2007 Alan Chin Lee

Miami Blue - Cyclargus thomasi -

Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
June 21, 2006

Compared to females, males have a large area of blue with a fine border of black and grey. This male was basking on the thumb of Bret Boyd, "keeper of the Blues" in the Special Projects lab at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in Gainesville, Florida.

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Miami Blue - Cyclargus thomasi - male - female

Contributed by Alan Chin Lee on 11 September, 2007 - 5:02pm

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