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Poling's Hairstreak
Satyrium polingi
Satyrium polingi, or Poling's hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1926. It is found in North America from southern New Mexico and western Texas south to north-eastern Mexico. The habitat consists of oak woodlands.
The wingspan is 25–30 mm. Adults feed on flower nectar.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 230444.