Eumaeus atala florida Röber, 1926:373
Florida hairstreak
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Invalid (synonym of the nominate)?
Conservation Status
Last record: 1937
Rediscovered in 1959
Distribution
Florida, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rober, Johannes Karl Max. (1926). Lepidopterlogisches. Entomologische Mitteilungen 15(5-6): 372-377.
Other references:
Comstock, W. P. and Huntington, E. I. (1943). Lycaenidae of the Antilles (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 45: 49-130.
Klots, A. B. (1951). A Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Koi, Sandy and Daniels, Jaret. (2017). Life History Variations and Seasonal Polyphenism in Eumaeus atala (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Florida Entomologist 100(2): 219-229.
Koi, Sandy and Hall, Donald W. (2016). Atala Butterfly, Atala Hairstreak, Coontie Hairstreak, Eumaeus atala Poey 1832 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). EENY-169. 11 pp.
Landolt, P. J. (1984). The Florida atala butterfly, Eumaeus atala florida Rueber (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), in Dade County, Florida. Florida Entomologist 67: 570-571.
Pelham, J. P. (2008). A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. Volume 40. 658 pp.
Rawson, G. (1961). The recent rediscovery of Eumaeus atala (Lycaenidae) in Florida. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 15: 237-244.
Rothschild, Miriam et al. (1986). Cycasin in the endangered butterfly Eumaeus atala florida. Phytochemistry 25(8): 1853-1854. [Abstract]
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/21676/eumaeus-atala-florida
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/rare-butterfly-rebounds-florida-after-was-believed-extinct