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Species Strymon avalona - Avalon Hairstreak - Hodges#4337

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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.