Callophrys hesseli, or Hessel's hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.[2] It ranges from southern Maine south along the Atlantic coastal plain to northern Florida on the Gulf Coast. The species was first described (as Mitoura hesseli) by George W. Rawson and J. Benjamin Ziegler in 1950, in honor of the lepidopterist Sidney Adolphus Hessel.[3] It is listed as endangered in Connecticut by state authorities.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Callophrys |
| Species: | C. hesseli
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| Binomial name | |
| Callophrys hesseli (Rawson & Ziegler, 1950)
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The caterpillars feed on Atlantic white-cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) and adults consume nectar from flowers including swamp milkweed, shadbush, sand myrtle, sweet pepperbush, highbush blueberry, buttonbush, and dogbane.[5]
Subspecies
edit- Callophrys hesseli hesseli
- Callophrys hesseli angulata (Gatrelle, 2001) (South Carolina)
References
edit- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Callophrys hesseli Hessel's Hairstreak". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Callophrys hesseli (Rawson & Ziegler, 1950)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
- ^ Rawson, George W. & Ziegler, J. Benjamin (June, 1950) "A New Species of Mitoura Scudder from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. LVIII(2). "We take pleasure in naming the new species in honor of Mr. Sidney A. Hessel, of Woodmere, N. Y., an enthusiastic collector and student of the Lepidoptera, in whose genial company we took our spring series."
- ^ ct.gov
- ^ "Hessel's Hairstreak Callophrys hesseli (Rawson & Ziegler, 1950) | Butterflies and Moths of North America". www.butterfliesandmoths.org.