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Sandia hairstreak
The Sandia hairstreak (''Callophrys mcfarlandi'') is a species of butterfly native to North America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Butterflies and Skippers of North America (maintained by Montana State University) )〕〔()〕 A relatively rare butterfly with a limited range, it was discovered in La Cueva Canyon, Albuquerque, in 1959, by "a 4-H kid"〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Orion Magazine )〕 and described the following year. The Sandia hairstreak was made one of the state insects of New Mexico in a 2002 bill approved the following year.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】format=PDF )〕
==Description==
''C. mcfarlandi'' is a relatively small butterfly with tailless wings that span 2.9–3.2 cm (1 to 1 inches). The wings of females are generally reddish-brown on the dorsal side with a narrow border of black around the edge. Males are typically brown. The underside of the wings of both sexes is usually greenish-yellow on the undersides with a postmedian line bordered with black near the base.〔〔 This species exhibits a certain amount of polymorphism, making the phenotype of some individuals significantly different from that described here but according to one simple description "it is small and gold and green in color and it lives in and among beargrass plants, where its pink, lavender and white caterpillars eat beargrass flowers, making the butterfly and its caterpillar easy to identify."〔
A butterfly hunter writing for ''Orion'' magazine describes:
...hairstreaks – "hair" for the tiny tails many kinds trail from their hindwings, "streak" for their stripes, or perhaps derived from their zippy flight. Many hairstreaks make their appearance early, then are seen no more...Goldy-green with a white stripe below, it blends perfectly with its larval host...I found the plant, and the butterfly, in its type locality (= place of original collection and description) – the Sandia Mountains, outside Albuquerque. What very different worlds: the beargrass mounts, the huge nearby casino, the city beyond. Hairstreaks, with their specific botanical needs and moist-spring ways, may be some of the first butterflies to feel the warming and drying, and to abandon historical ranges. But the Sandia is still there for now.〔
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