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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 » Melissa Blue - Hodges#4375 (Plebejus melissa)
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Melissa Blue (?) - Plebejus melissa - female
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Melissa Blue (?) - Plebejus melissa - Female
Blythe Lake, Columbia NWR , Grant County, Washington, USA
July 14, 2019
Size: 1/2 inch + or -
I was checking out for odes when I saw a blue butterfly (topside) that flew into some flowers and I managed to get several images of the blue with the wings closed showing a 1/2 ring of orange along the outer hind and fore wings.

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Melissa Blue (?) - Plebejus melissa - female Melissa Blue (?) - Plebejus melissa - female
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Contributed by davedlj on 6 August, 2019 - 3:02pm
Last updated 6 November, 2020 - 1:10pm

Melissa Blue - Moved
Moved from Blues.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 6 November, 2020 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Skippers.
… Ken Allison, 19 August, 2019 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

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