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Strymon melinus (cotton square borer; gray hairstreak)

Synonyms: Strymon melinus humuli; Thecla favonius; Thecla humuli; Thecla pan (heterotypic); Thecla silenus (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus) is one of the most common hairstreaks in North America, ranging over nearly the entire continent. It occurs also throughout Central America and in northern South America.
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Infraspecies

Strymon melinus atrofasciata
Strymon melinus clarionensis
Strymon melinus franki
Strymon melinus meinersi
Strymon melinus melinus
Strymon melinus setonia
Strymon melinus youngi

Attributes

Diet [1]  Herbivore
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Wing Span [2]  1.024 inches (.026 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Aplomya theclarum[4]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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