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Gray Hairstreak

Strymon melinus

STRY-mon mel-EYE-nuss

Checklist Number
61.0041

Gray Hairstreak

Strymon melinus

STRY-mon mel-EYE-nuss

Checklist Number
61.0041


A single specimen of this Central American species was seen in Pocklington, Yorkshire in 1894, and is believed to have been accidentally imported.

This species was first defined in Hübner (1818) as shown here.

 
Family:LycaenidaeLeach, 1815
Subfamily:TheclinaeButler, 1869
Tribe:ThecliniSwainson, 1831
Genus:StrymonHübner, 1818
Subgenus:  
Species:melinusHübner, 1818