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Great Purple Hairstreak

Atlides halesus

Photo by LoisStacey
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Description:

Shiny gray/black with bright orange spots along the body on the wing edges and a bright, neon-iridescent streak where the hind wing and forwing overlap. There are tails on the lower trailing edge of the hindwing. This was a very fresh individual

Habitat:

Found in mixed Pine/hardwoods in sandhills along the edges of a lowland hardwood. The host plant, Mistletoe, was in some of the nearby oaks.

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Great Purple Hairstreak

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