Great Purple Hairstreak

Great Purple Hairstreak

Taxobox
name = Great Purple Hairstreak


image_caption = Probably a Great Purple Hairstreak in New Mexico
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Atlides"
species = "A. halesus"
binomial = "Atlides halesus"
binomial_authority = (Cramer, 1777)
The Great Purple Hairstreak ("Atlides halesus"), also called the great blue hairstreak, is a common North American butterfly. The larvae (Caterpillars) feed on mistletoe ("Phoradendron") species.

External links

* [http://www.rlephoto.com/butterflies/hairstreak_gpurple01.htm Great Purple Hairstreak, Butterflies of North Carolina Online]
*http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/usa/282.htm
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/bfly/purple_hairstreak.htm great purple hairstreak] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site


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