Satyrium fuliginosum
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Satyrium |
Species: | S. fuliginosum
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Binomial name | |
Satyrium fuliginosum (W.H. Edwards, 1861)[1]
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Satyrium fuliginosum, the sooty hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in western North America from British Columbia to central California, east to Wyoming and northern Colorado.[2]
Adults are on wing from July to August. Adults feed on flower nectar.
The larvae feed on Lupinus.
Subspecies
[edit]- S. f. albolineatum Mattoon & Austin, 1998
- S. f. fuliginosum
- S. f. tildenia Mattoon & Austin, 1998
References
[edit]- ^ Satyrium at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Butterflies and Moths of North America
External links
[edit]- Sooty hairstreak, Butterflies of Canada