Scott-
We generally went with NABA common names. Note that M. gryneus was
once a separate species. However, siva and gryneus have been
found to hybridize in w. Texas and New Mexico. Most now consider
siva to be a subspecies of gryneus. Both NABA and the USGS site give
gryneus the common name of Juniper Hairstreak. I guess that makes sense
since all the host plants are from the genus Juniperus. But,
it is confusing. Perhaps they should have adopted Juniper Hairstreak for
the siva subspecies and leave Olive Hairstreak for gryneus.
Kent
At 10:45 AM 5/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings Dave:
>
>I finally made it to your photo, looks like Mitoura gryneus.
After checking
>the VBA forms I see that it is listed as Callophrys gryneus,
(Juniper
>Hairstreak). I don't agree with the common name, Juniper
Hairstreak is
>Mitoura siva. Need to check with Kent, maybe just a typo.
Great photo,
>specimen is in great shape.
>
>Scott
>
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