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Erora laeta (Early Hairstreak)

Synonyms: Thecla clothilde; Thecla laeta

Wikipedia Abstract

The Early Hairstreak (Erora laeta) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in eastern Canada and the US. The habitat consists of deciduous and mixed woods. The wingspan is 21–24 mm. The upperside of the wings is blue and black. Females are more blue than males. The underside is turquoise blue, the hindwings with two irregular bands of small orange spots. Adults are on wing from April to September. There are two generations in the northern part of the range and three in the south.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.866 inches (.022 m)

Prey / Diet

Corylus cornuta (California hazelnut)[2]
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)[3]
Quercus alba (White Oak)[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0