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Red-banded hairstreak

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ744152 ↗
Source-derived summary

The red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops) is a butterfly native to the southeastern United States. It feeds on fallen leaves of sumac species and other trees. It is 0.9–1.25 inches (23–32 mm) in size. It lives near coastal areas.

Its genome was sequenced in 2016. It has a false "head" that helps it avoid predators.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Red-banded hairstreak” is species of insect. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Red-banded, hairstreak and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Red-banded, hairstreak and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Red-banded hairstreak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.