Clytie Ministreak

Ministrymon clytie is resident in North America only in the very southern tip of Texas (Scott 1986). It ranges to south Mexico and is migratory into southern Arizona and central Mexico. Habitats are subtropical thorn forest. Host plants are trees, restricted to one family, Leguminosae (such as Prosopis reptans and other legumes). There are many flights all year in s Tex (Scott 1986).

Ministrymon clytie, the Clytie hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Henry Edwards in 1877. It is found from southern Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. The habitat consists of tropical forest openings and subtropical thorn forests.

The larvae feed on Pithecellobium species.