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Eastern Tailed-Blue Everes comyntas | September 5, 2010 |
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The eastern tailed-blue (Everes comyntas) is in the butterfly family Blues, except that the female eastern tailed-blue is dark gray/purple when seen with her wings open.
The tails on either hindwing is a true identification aid. |
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The tailed-blue is a smallish butterfly, about the size of a thumb nail.
With her wings in a semiopen position, the purple is clearer. |
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| With her wings closed, the wings are white, more or less, but with a delicate pattern and two orange spots (and a few orange itty-bitty ones). |
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| Here is a clearer photo of the eastern-tailed blue, with her wings closed. |
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She has beautiful eyes.
Photo note: I used the Pentax K20D, with the Voigtlander 125mm macro lens, for these photos, taken in August 2010. |