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Eastern Tailed-Blue

Cupido comyntas

Photo by todd.vaccaro
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Dark blue wings embroidered with black and white stripes in arcs. A small red dot and red square with tendrils.

Habitat:

Woods pike county PA

Notes:

Cleaning basement- may like humidity?

Species ID Suggestions

eastern tailed blue
todd.vaccaro
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Comments (4)
Ashish
True part of web of life... Its a Villain's role done by such spider while watching such beautiful butterfly..!!
todd.vaccaro
I looked up, it might be. My description of being brown might be off because of the light.

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PublishedJuly 30, 2011

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