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Eastern tailed - blue butterfly

Everes comyntas

Photo by TamLar
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Description:

This small, delicate butterfly is 3/4th to 1 inch in size. Males are silver - gray to silver - blue with with thin margin and spots of orange and black, and a white margin. Female is slate-gray and black spots with blue. Female also has white margin.

Habitat:

Fields, gardens

Reference Links:

Eastern Tailed-Blue

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