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Easter tailed blue butterfly ID? - Cupido comyntas - male - female
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Easter tailed blue butterfly ID? - Cupido comyntas - Male Female
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
September 17, 2020
I found these two in my front yard one afternoon after work. They did not like being handled whatsoever flew away from me a short distance, not long after being picked up for examination.

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Easter tailed blue butterfly ID? - Cupido comyntas - male - female Easter tailed blue butterfly ID? - Cupido comyntas - male - female
Contributed by RA027 on 29 October, 2020 - 2:25pm
Last updated 30 October, 2020 - 5:32am

E. Tailed Blue pair - Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 30 October, 2020 - 5:32am

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