Brown Elfin (Deciduphagus augustinus, Callophrys augustinus)

Uncommon and local in NC, this species has only one brood and is found on the wing only in the springtime. It's the most widespread elfin in North America with populations ranging erratically from the southern Appalachians northward to Canada westward to the Rockies and southward to Mexico.

	Weymouth Woods State Park Moore Co., NC 14 March 2007 Nectaring in this photo and the one below on the rare Sandhills Pyxie-moss (Pyxidanthera brevifolia), an endemic to the Carolinas.
	Weymouth Woods State Park Moore Co., NC 14 March 2007


Weymouth Woods State Park Moore Co., NC 14 March 2007	Weymouth Woods State Park Moore Co., NC 14 March 2007


Worn individual Weymouth Woods State Park Moore Co., NC 10 April 2004

Brown Elfin (Deciduphagus augustinus, Callophrys augustinus)

Weymouth Woods State Park
Moore Co., NC
14 March 2007

Many Brown Elfins are fond of lurking in difficult to photograph locations...


Brown Elfin (Callophrys augustinus) Rock Creek, Missoula Co., MT 7 May 2012	Brown Elfin (Callophrys augustinus) Rock Creek, Missoula Co., MT 7 May 2012

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