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Melissa Blue

Plebejus melissa

Photo by LuckyLogan
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Comments (3)
LisaPowers
I would say your id is correct and I would certainly go with BAMONA over Wikipedia.
LuckyLogan
After a lot of searching, I found this. It's either Melissa Blue or a Karner Blue. I would list scientific names, but apparently there is some misconstruities between genus name? Wiki says Lycaeides and Butterflies And Moths says Plebejus. Any input?

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PublishedMay 23, 2014

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