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Gray hairstreak - Strymon melinus
Copyright © 2006 Terry Allison

Gray hairstreak - Strymon melinus
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
September 14, 2006
Would like to confirm if this is a Gray hairstreak? Thank you for your help.
Contributed by Terry Allison on 9 December, 2006 - 7:51pm
Last updated 5 November, 2012 - 1:03am

I checked a Sedgwick County list at www.butterfliesandmoths.org
Boy, was it light! Only one type of hairstreak? Well, Great Plains Nature Center logs 181 species for Kansas. Of these, better than a dozen are hairstreaks.

While I sometimes shoot in your area, I'm not familiar with most, but we do have gray hairstreaks here in Southern California. Yours looks like those!
… Ron Hemberger, 9 December, 2006 - 8:02pm

 
Thank you...
for your help. Much appreciated.
… Terry Allison, 10 December, 2006 - 1:46pm

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