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Silvery Blue Butterfly- Now listed as endangered...

Identification: Upperside of male iridescent silvery blue with narrow dark borders; female darker blue with wide borders. Both sexes have white fringe. Underside gray-brown; both wings with row of white-ringed, round black spots. Subspecies xerces (Boisduval) and pseudoxerces Emmel and Emmel have large white spots with or without black centers.

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Uploaded on June 1, 2010
Taken on May 30, 2010