Callophrys hesseli

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]

Hessel's hairstreak
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Callophrys
Species:	C. hesseli
Binomial name
Callophrys hesseli (Rawson & Ziegler, 1950)
Synonyms
Mitoura hesseli Rawson & Ziegler, 1950 Mitoura hesseli angulata Gatrelle, 2001

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

• Callophrys hesseli hesseli
• Callophrys hesseli angulata (Gatrelle, 2001) (South Carolina)

References

1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Callophrys hesseli Hessel's Hairstreak". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
2. Savela, Markku. "Callophrys hesseli (Rawson & Ziegler, 1950)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
3. 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."
4. ct.gov
5. "Hessel's Hairstreak Callophrys hesseli (Rawson & Ziegler, 1950) | Butterflies and Moths of North America". www.butterfliesandmoths.org.