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Eastern Tailed-Blue

Cupido comyntas

Description:

One narrow tail on hindwing. Upperside of male iridescent blue; summer females uniformly brown, spring females smaller with much blue at the wing bases. Underside of hindwing pale gray with black bar at end of cell, distinct black spots, and three large orange spots at outer margin near tail.

Notes:

Amazingly little guy at Eastern Neck Island, Rock Hall, Md

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1 Comment

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Nice shot..
They are so small.. their texture we can see only on computer... their wings are smaller than our toe's nails.

mdwildlife
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mdwildlife

Maryland, USA

Spotted on May 6, 2012
Submitted on May 7, 2012

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