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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) » Plebejus » Acmon Blue - Hodges#4380 (Plebejus acmon)
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Veined or Acmon Blue - Plebejus acmon - female
Copyright © 2013 nativeplants

Veined or Acmon Blue - Plebejus acmon - Female
Between Hollywood and Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
June 1, 2013
This butterfly was on a Eriogonum grande rubscens, Buckwheat

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Contributed by nativeplants on 9 June, 2013 - 10:34am
Last updated 14 October, 2016 - 9:54am

Sounds reasonable
I think Acmon is correct, and I was totally wrong.

Not only about species, but I marked this as male, and it is clearly a female.

Sorry about the goofs, and glad to see they are sorted out. I'm wondering if I swithched this with another specimen while commenting, and if there might be a male Veined Blue hiding under Acmon or Lupine?
… David J. Ferguson, 14 October, 2016 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Veined Blue.
… john and jane balaban, 13 October, 2016 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

Veined - male
Moved from Butterflies (excluding skippers).
… David J. Ferguson, 31 August, 2013 - 2:08am login or register to post comments

 
ID?
I don't think this is P. neurona. The location is much too low. Also P. acmon occasionally has some orange on the forewing in Southern California, supposedly due to past hybridization with P. neurona.
… Mike Hofmann, 27 February, 2014 - 12:44am login or register to post comments

 
I would have thought acmon
even if the underside spots are yellower than normal.
… James Bailey, 13 May, 2016 - 1:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Schneider, 3 July, 2013 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

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