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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 © 2011 Bob Wilkin

Great Purple Hairstreak - Atlides halesus - Female
Corn Creek Station of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Clark County, Nevada, USA
May 30, 2009

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Contributed by Bob Wilkin on 3 February, 2011 - 4:04am
Last updated 27 March, 2011 - 12:17am

Great photos of a male,
not a female. Note the iridescent blue-turquoise patch on VFW just above the leading edge of the hindwing. Also, in the western subspecies (Atlides halesus corcorani), males have only one tail on each wing. Eastern males have two, one longer one shorter.
This male is apparently taking nectar in florets of Pluchea sericea.
For comparison: a male, and a female A. h. corcorani.
… Hartmut Wisch, 13 October, 2012 - 5:29am login or register to post comments

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