Strymon bubastus

Strymon bubastus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Strymon
Species:	S. bubastus
Binomial name
Strymon bubastus (Stoll, 1780)
Synonyms
Papilio bubastus Stoll, [1780] Papilio minereus Fabricius, 1787 Thecla salona Hewitson, 1868 Thecla sapota Hewitson, 1877 Thecla cestri peruensis Dufrane, 1939 Strymon vividus Le Crom & Johnson, 1997 Strymon sapota Thecla bubastus ponce Comstock & Huntington, 1943 Thecla ponce Comstock & Huntington, 1943

Strymon bubastus, the disjunct scrub-hairstreak or Bubastus hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1780. It is found in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Dominica and Grenada.[1]

Host plants include Phyla nodiflora and Waltheria ovata in Chile.[2]

Subspecies

Strymon Bubastus Bubastus found in Venezuela

• Strymon bubastus bubastus
• Strymon bubastus ponce (Comstock & Huntington, 1943) (Antilles)

References

1. "Strymon Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Vargas, Héctor A.; Vargas-Ortiz, Marcelo; Bobadilla, Dante (June 2016). "Larval Polychromatism in the Neotropical Hairstreak Strymon bubastus (Stoll) (Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini) Associated with Two Newly Documented Host Plants in the Atacama Desert". The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 70 (2): 153–157. doi:10.18473/lepi.70i2.a11. ISSN 0024-0966.

• Strymon sapota at Insecta.pro