Summary ⁴

The eastern tailed-blue or eastern tailed blue (Cupido comyntas), also known as Everes comyntas, is a common butterfly of eastern North America. It is a medium-sized butterfly that is distinguished from other blues in its range by the small thin tail.

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2. USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cupido_comyntas.jpg
3. (c) John Beetham, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by John Beetham
4. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupido_comyntas

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• Pacific Northwest Moths

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