Satyrium fuliginosum
| Sooty hairstreak | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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)[2]
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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.[3]
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]- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ 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
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