Great Purple Hairstreak ... Creamy Stripe-streak ... Gold-bordered Hairstreak...
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www.naba.org/images/lycaenidae/lycaenidae.html
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Family: Gossamer-wing Butterflies (Lycaenidae) ... Family Description: The Lycaenidae are members of the Superfamily Papilionoidea, the true butterflies. Worldwide in distribution, this family has approximately 4,700 species that are unevenly distributed. ... Long-winged Greenstreak (Cyanophrys longula)
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www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=16&sci=Lycaenida...
www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=16&sci=Lycaenidae&com=Gossamer-wing%20Butterflies
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Hosted and maintained by the Big Sky Institute at Montana State University. Primary financial support comes from the United States Geological Survey NBII program and the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. ... Additional financial support for this project comes from our advertisers. ... Occurrence maps, species accounts,
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www.butterfliesandmoths.org/gallery
www.butterfliesandmoths.org/gallery
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An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information. ... Kingdom Animalia (Animals) ... For a brief introduction to Lycaenids' mutualistic relationships with ants (myrmecophily) go to Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site .
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Lycaenidae: The Gossamer-Winged Butterflies ... The family is known as the Gossamer-Winged butterflies because their wings, like the fabric, generally appear delicate and shimmery. Their wings are covered both by pigmented scales and by light-refracting scales.
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imnh.isu.edu/DIGITALATLAS/bio/insects/butrfly/famlyc/fa...
imnh.isu.edu/DIGITALATLAS/bio/insects/butrfly/famlyc/famlyc.htm
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Coppers (Subfamily Lycaeninae ... American Copper; Lycaena phlaeas ... Start > Butterfly Families > Species List...
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www.rlephoto.com/03gosamerwings.htm
www.rlephoto.com/03gosamerwings.htm
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When one sees a gossamer-winged butterfly flitting from flower to flower on a bright June day it seems one of the most ethereal of earth's visions. One could readily fancy that the whole sight flowers, butterflies, and all might easily vanish into thin air. ... Perhaps the most remarkable feature is the marking of the wings,
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www.oldandsold.com/articles30/butterflies-22.shtml
www.oldandsold.com/articles30/butterflies-22.shtml
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Butterfly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage, and a spectacu...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly
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The Karner blue butterfly, Lycaeides melissa samuelis, is in the Lycaenidae (gossamer-winged butterfly) family. The adult Karner blue butterfly is about the size of a nickel, with a wingspan of about an inch, and it can be identified by the bands of orange spots on the underside edge of its wings.
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dnr.wi.gov/forestry/karner/identification.htm
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