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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) » Hairstreaks (Theclinae) » Eumaeini » Atlides » Great Purple Hairstreak - Hodges#4270 (Atlides halesus)
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Great Purple Hairstreak - Atlides halesus - female
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Great Purple Hairstreak - Atlides halesus - Female
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
May 16, 2009
I have never seen this moth, I'm guessing it's one of the tigers. Not often I see a moth with its wings folded like a sulfur. The dorsal side of the wings are solid, bright metallic blue.
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 18 May, 2009 - 9:21am
Last updated 12 October, 2012 - 1:35am

What was it stricken with?
Oh, you must mean "strikingly beautiful..." :-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 May, 2009 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

 
Musta Been
Freudian, all considering it spent the night with a sheet full of moths. :}
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 21 May, 2009 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

Atlides halesus, i guess
i'm no lep guy, but, as far as i know, only butterflies, not moths, keep the wings upright and have knobbed antennae
… v belov, 18 May, 2009 - 9:30am login or register to post comments

 
You beat me to it....
The guide page can be found here.
… Lynette Elliott, 18 May, 2009 - 9:34am login or register to post comments

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