Brown Elfin 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.
Brown Elfin (Deciduphagus augustinus, Callophrys augustinus) 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.

Brown Elfin (Deciduphagus augustinus, Callophrys augustinus) Weymouth Woods State Park
Moore Co., NC
14 March 2007
Brown Elfin (Deciduphagus augustinus, Callophrys augustinus) Brown Elfin (Deciduphagus augustinus, Callophrys augustinus)
Weymouth Woods State Park
Moore Co., NC
14 March 2007		 Weymouth Woods State Park
Moore Co., NC
14 March 2007
Brown Elfin (Deciduphagus augustinus, Callophrys augustinus)
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...

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Created on ... April 12, 2004 | Updated ... March 14, 2007 | jspippen@duke.edu