Strymon bubastus
(Redirected from Bubastus hairstreak)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Strymon |
| Species: | S. bubastus
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| Strymon bubastus (Stoll, 1780)
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Strymon bubastus, the disjunct scrub-hairstreak or Bubastus hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1780. It is found in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Dominica and Grenada.[1]
Host plants include Phyla nodiflora and Waltheria ovata in Chile.[2]
Subspecies
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- Strymon bubastus bubastus
- Strymon bubastus ponce (Comstock & Huntington, 1943) (Antilles)
References
[edit]- ^ "Strymon Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Vargas, Héctor A.; Vargas-Ortiz, Marcelo; Bobadilla, Dante (June 2016). "Larval Polychromatism in the Neotropical Hairstreak Strymon bubastus (Stoll) (Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini) Associated with Two Newly Documented Host Plants in the Atacama Desert". The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 70 (2): 153–157. doi:10.18473/lepi.70i2.a11. ISSN 0024-0966.
- Strymon sapota at Insecta.pro