Banded Hairstreak (Satyrium calanus)

Uncommon to locally common, this species is single brooded (May/June) and is found in scattered locations statewide in NC.


Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 7 June 2007	Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 7 June 2007


Duke Forest, Orange Co., NC 7 June 2007


Male Duke Forest Orange Co., NC 25 May 2007	same individual


Female Weymouth Woods State Park Moore Co., NC 11 June 2003	Female Buncombe Co., NC 26 June 2004


Male Duke Forest Orange Co., NC 29 May 2004	Male Duke Forest Orange Co., NC 2 June 2004

The above photos are of two different male Banded Hairstreaks, taken a few hundred meters apart along Round Bottom Road in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park at an elevation over 5500'.
Swain Co., NC 4 July 01.

	Male Allegan Co., MI 5 July 2004

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Created on ... July 17, 2001; Updated on ... June 18, 2004 | jspippen@duke.edu