"Beneath, the black-and-white line that crosses the gray-brown wings is widely bordered inwardly with red or red-orange. That broad band extends across both the hindwing and the forewing and gives the species its common name."

"It occupies the eastern third of ... [Texas], where its range overlaps with that of the dusky-blue hairstreak ... It appears that these two sibling species interbreed in the Houston area, or that they are forms of a single species."

There is a variant "Form with narrow redband, ventral."

Photo taken with a Nikon D90 using a Nikon 200mm, f/4 lens.

May 30, 2010.