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Strymon bazochii
(Godart), 1824
Japanese name:
English name: Smaller lantana butterfly (Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak)
Distribution: Central America, Mexico to South Texas, Hawaii, Australia
Distribution in Hawaii: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Hawaii
Host Plants: Lantana (Lantana camara)
Fleights: Multi-brooded
Comments: This species was introduced to Hawaii in 1902 to control lantana. Also introduced to Australia in 1914.
Adult butterflies
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
April 11, 2004. Caught by a green anole lizard.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
April 11, 2004. Caught by a green anole lizard.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
April 11, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 16, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 16, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 16, 2004. Caught by a green anole lizard.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 16, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 16, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 22, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 22, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 22, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 22, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 22, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 22, 2004.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
November 21, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
November 21, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
November 2, 2003. Female.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
November 2, 2003. Female.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
November 2, 2003. Female.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 28, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 28, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 28, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 1, 2003.
Male.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 1, 2003. Male.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 1, 2003.
Male.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 1, 2003. Female.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
September 1, 2003.
Laying eggs
on a lantana flower.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
August 2, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
August 2, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
August 2, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
August 2, 2003.
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
August 2, 2003.
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Pololu Valley Lookout, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 2, 2003.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
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Waikele Center, Waipahu, Oahu.
March 30, 2002.
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Waikele Center, Waipahu, Oahu.
March 30, 2002.
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Waikele Center, Waipahu, Oahu.
March 30, 2002.
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Aiea Loop Trail, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 31, 2002.
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Aiea Loop Trail, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 31, 2002.
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Aiea Loop Trail, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 31, 2002.
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Kahala, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 1, 2002.
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Kahala, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 1, 2002.
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Kahala, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 1, 2002.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 2002.
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Pololu Beach, Big Island of Hawaii.
April 6, 2002.
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Pua Mau Place, North Kohala, Big Island of Hawaii.
March 24, 2002.
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Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden
in Captain Cook, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 10, 2002.
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Pu'u O Mahuka Heiau State Monument, Oahu.
December 26, 2001.
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Kalaupapa Settlement on Moloka'i.
December 11, 2000.
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Moomomi Dunes on the island of Moloka'i.
December 12, 2000.
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Moomomi Dunes on the island of Moloka'i.
December 12, 2000.
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Kaluakoi Resort on Moloka'i.
December 14, 2000.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 1999.
Female.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 1999.
Female.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 1999.
Female.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 1999.
Female.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 1999.
Female.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 1999.
Female.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 1999.
Female.
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Early stages
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Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii.
February 22, 2004.
Egg.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
Larva among the flowers of lantana.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
The last instar larva and an ant on the host plant, lantana.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
The last instar larva and ants on the host plant, lantana.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
March 29, 2002.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 2002.
Larva among the flowers of lantana.
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Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu.
April 2, 2002.
Larva among the flowers of lantana.
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Host plants & habitat
Other resouces on the internet
- "Butterflies of Northern Mexico -- Strymon bazochii", Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center;
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/mx/373.htm
- "Strymon bazochii", Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia, by Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley;
http://www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/lyca/bazochi.html
- "Butterflies and Skippers of North America - Strymon bazochii", by Paul A. Opler, Ray E. Stanford, Harry Pavulaan, the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (USGS), and the staff of Nearctica.com;
http://www.nearctica.com/butter/plate9/Sbazoch.htm
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