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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Gossamer-winged Butterflies
  7. Green Hairstreaks
  8. Incisalia
  9. Desert Elfin

species 153 observations

Desert Elfin

Callophrys fotis

Status
presumed native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Supported by All

5 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Broad-leaved Stonecrop, Antelope Bitterbrush, Stansbury's Cliffrose, Desert Bitterbrush 4
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Desert Apricot 1

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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