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These butterflies were seen on at Sugarite Canyon State Park and/or Capulin Volcano National Monument, northern New Mexico, on July 18-19, 2005

Banded Hairstreak, Satyrium calanus Capulin Volcano National Monument  18 July 2005 Host plant:  Gambel's Oak

Colorado Hairstreak, Hypaurotis crysalus Sugarite Canyon State Park  18 July 2005 Host plant:  Gambel's Oak

Mormon Metalmark, Apodemia mormo duryi? or Apodemia duryi?  Nectaring on host plant, Eriogonium jamesia ssp jamesia. Capulin Volcano National Monument, NM 19 July 2005

Canyonland Satyr,  Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea Sugarite Canyon State Park, NM 18 July 2005

Acmon/Lupine Blue Complex nectaring at Eriogonum jamesia ssp jamesia Capulin Volcano National Monument, NM 19 July 2005.

Acmon/Lupine Blue Complex Sugarite Canyon State Park, NM  18 July 2005