Species Strymon avalona - Avalon Hairstreak - Hodges#4337

Classification · Hodges Number · Range · Remarks

Strymon melinus (versus avalona) - Strymon avalona

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Lycaenidae (Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters)

Subfamily Theclinae (Hairstreaks)

Tribe Eumaeini

Genus Strymon

Species avalona (Avalon Hairstreak - Hodges#4337)

Hodges Number

4337

Range

Santa Catalina Island, California

Remarks

Closely similar to the Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus), but usually with the ground color of the wings below lighter beyond the median dark line than is the rest of the wings (giving a two-tone effect); usually with the black and orange eye spot missing below the hind wing (if present the dark part is usually cresent shaped, the orange part missing or very narrow, and the whole more compressed between the submarginal dark line and the wing margin than it is in S. melinus.

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 29 August, 2011 - 8:51pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz
Last updated 3 July, 2017 - 3:34am

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