[TN-Butterflies] Claiborne County Hairstreak

  • From: "Doug Bruce" <s137@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "TN Butterflies" <TN-Butterflies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 23:01:34 -0400

Found this hairstreak basking on a seldom-visited section of ridgetop on 
Cumberland Mountain, northeast of Baptist Gap (Claiborne Co., TN):

http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae204/DougLepidoptera/Claiborne_Co/02_ClaiborneCoTN30May11.jpg

http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae204/DougLepidoptera/Claiborne_Co/01_ClaiborneCoTN30May11.jpg

It looks like a Banded Hairstreak, but I don't recall ever seeing one with 
absolutely no red on the ventral hindwing.  Comments?  Opinions?

Thanks,
Doug

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