, the Rosner's hairstreak, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family . It is found in western North America in

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. and

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...

state. Subspecies is known as Barry's hairstreak. The

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is . The larvae of subspecies ''M. r. rosneri'' feed on western red cedar (''

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''), while the larvae of subspecies ''M. r. plicataria'' feed on Rocky Mountain juniper (''

Juniperus scopulorum ''Juniperus scopulorum'', the Rocky Mountain juniper, is a species of juniper native to western North America, from southwest Canada to the Great Plains of the United States. Description ''Juniperus scopulorum'' is a small evergreen conifer ...

'').

Subspecies

* Rosner's hairstreak (interior ranges of British Columbia) * Barry's hairstreak (Vancouver Island and Coast Range of British Columbia, Washington)

Taxonomy

Both and are often treated as subspecies of . is a synonym of .

References

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Butterflies and Moths of North America Butterflies described in 1976 Callophrys {{Eumaeini-stub