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Sheridan's Hairstreak - Hodges#4307 (Callophrys sheridanii)
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Coastal Sheridan's Hairstreak (Callophrys sheridanii viridis)
Photo#269915
Copyright © 2009
Feather Forestwalker, AKA Lisa Walker
Coastal Green Hairstreak -
Callophrys sheridanii
Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California, USA
April 27, 2009
Size: less than 1/4 "
Found as I climbed down a cliff, this one at first I thought was dead or dying. I put it on the tip of a glove-covered finger for the shot.
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Contributed by
Feather Forestwalker, AKA Lisa Walker
on 27 April, 2009 - 1:07pm
Last updated 27 April, 2009 - 10:24pm
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this is affinis not sheridanii
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Mike Hofmann
, 20 June, 2009 - 9:44pm
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Re: ID
Well, it sure looks more like the sheridanii to me? Though I am just a novice at this; it was found, like all its other relatives, on or near, the coast, and not anywhere inland at all. Anyone else?
According to the photos of affinis, they all seem to have gray markings, in a wide swath, across the secondary wings:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/25011
This shot above, does not. Would that be a difference in sex?
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Feather Forestwalker, AKA Lisa Walker
, 20 June, 2009 - 9:57pm
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Like others...I think you placed this correctly, Lisa.
I recently researched this issue a bit in connection with the following post:
To add to the remarks on that post, below are quotes from the wonderful 2007 "Field Guide to the Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay..."
(
1
)
by renowned lepidopterist Art Shapiro of UC Davis:
"
Bramble Hairstreak
(
Callophrys "dumetorum"
complex)
This is one of our worst taxonomic nightmares. Scarely any two authorities agree on the limits of species, or to what named entity various populations should be assigned, or even to the correct biological entity to which some of the names refer. Fortunately—whatever one chooses to call them—there appear to be two biological entities in our area that can be appreciated and studied if names are either avoided or used with a healthy dose of both skepticism and tact. At this writing, some authorities are calling these things
C. affinis!
"
The gist I get from the above paragraph...and especially the last sentence...is that calling this
C. affinis
would just be adding more confusion to the already overly-convoluted taxonomic situation existing in 2007. Shapiro continued by describing the "two biological entities" he referred to above as:
"
"Inland" Bramble Hairstreak
(
Callophrys dumetorum
of older books;
C. perplexa perplexa
of Brock & Kaufman)"
and...
"
"Coastal" Bramble Hairstreak
(
Callophrys viridis
of older books;
C. perplexa viridis
of Brock & Kaufman; true
C. dumetorum
per Emmel, Emmel, & Matoon)
Confined to the coastal fog belt in scrub and dune communities, this animal—one of our most beautiful and photogenic butterflies—may or may not be conspecific with the "Inland" entity, but the two seemingly never co-occur."
But, as of 2012, per the remarks and reference quoted in
my post
mentioned above, it appears the proper name here is either
C. viridis
, or... if one believes that
C. viridis
and
C. sheridanii
are the same species...
C. sheridanii viridis
.
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Aaron Schusteff
, 24 April, 2014 - 10:53pm
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