King's Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi)

Generally rare and local in North Carolina, mostly in the sandhills and coastal plain but a few piedmont and mountain records exist.
King's Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi) King's Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi)
Weymouth Wooods, Moore Co., NC
9 June 2007

Note the bold orange "crown" over the blue spot in the underhindwing.

King's Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi) King's Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi)
Weymouth Wooods, Moore Co., NC
9 June 2007		 Weymouth Wooods, Moore Co., NC
9 June 2007
King's Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi) King's Hairstreak (Satyrium kingi)
Nectaring on New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americana)
Weymouth Woods, Moore Co., NC
11 June 2003 		Weymouth Wooods, Moore Co., NC
9 June 2007

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