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Eastern Tailed-Blue

Cupido comyntas

Description:

Small white butterfly no bigger than a fingernail with black dots around the edge of its wings and an orange place on the bottom corner of its wing.

Notes:

Found flying on and around some kind of slime.

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Eastern Tailed-blue
Cupido comyntas


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3 Comments

AshleyAkers
AshleyAkers 12 years ago

Thanks guys! Very neat pics Steffi

Steffi
Steffi 12 years ago

You can see the "tails" here: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/646...

MichaelFulbright
MichaelFulbright 12 years ago

If you look very closely, this butterfly has little "tails" on it's hindwings. Great shot!
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/speci...

AshleyAkers
Spotted by
AshleyAkers

West Virginia, USA

Spotted on Jul 4, 2011
Submitted on Jul 5, 2011

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