-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)

-Butterflies (Superfamily Papilionoidea)

-Gossamer-winged Butterflies (Family Lycaenidae)

-Hairstreaks (Subfamily Theclinae)

-Tribe Eumaeini

-Subtribe Strymonina

-Scrub-Hairstreaks (Genus Strymon)

-Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon istapa)

Found on open disturbed areas, second growth, weedy pastures, roadsides. The Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak is a small, light gray Hairstreak with one small tail, two black dots on the wings margin below, the largest and most conspicuous one near the tail, and prominent black postmedian bands on each wing.