#3078 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
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what is it?
Strymon melinus is een vlinder uit de familie Lycaenidae, de kleine pages, vuurvlinders en blauwtjes. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1818 door Jacob Hübner gepubliceerd. De soort is de typesoort van het geslacht Strymon .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 91,846 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1818 (208 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gray Hairstreak
- scientific name
- Strymon melinus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Lycaenidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 91,846
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1818 by Jacob Hübner
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 50931, Wikidata Q3021949, GBIF 1925429, Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.