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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) » Tailed Blues (Cupido) » Eastern Tailed-Blue - Hodges#4361 (Cupido comyntas)
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Eastern Tailed Blue - Cupido comyntas
Copyright © 2006 Steve Scott

Eastern Tailed Blue - Cupido comyntas
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
April 21, 2006
One of the earliest to fly in our area (along with cabbage butterflies) but difficult to find in spreadwing pose. Thank goodness for cool mornings and warm mud. Anyhow, here's one for the databank from Illinois.
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Contributed by Steve Scott on 27 April, 2006 - 6:39pm

Female
Steve, from what I've read and been told, this appears to be a female Eastern Tailed Blue. I prepared a side-by-side comparison photo here, just for the Guide:

… Kenneth Dwain Harrelson, 16 June, 2008 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for the light!
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