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Strymon bazochii (Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak)

Synonyms: Polyommatus bazochii; Strymon gundlachianus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak or Smaller Lantana Butterfly (Strymon bazochii) is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found from Paraguay north through Central America, the West Indies and Mexico to southern Texas. It was introduced to Hawaii in 1902 to control lantana, in which it has proven unsuccessful. The wingspan is 22-25 mm. Adults are on wing from May to December. There are two to three generations per year.
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Infraspecies

Strymon bazochii bazochii
Strymon bazochii gundlachianus

Prey / Diet

Lantana camara (lantana)[1]
Ocimum basilicum (sweet basil)[1]
Tridax procumbens (coatbuttons)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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