This male Melissa Blue Plebejus melissa melissa was perched along the edge of a sagebrush plateau located on both sides of H84 a few miles south of Chama, Rio Arriba county, New Mexico of July 07, 2008:
This individual was in brushy flats on Four Mile Creek Road a few miles west of Fairplay, Park County Colorado on July 13, 2011:
This female was one of a least a dozen Melissa Blues Plebejus melissa melissa seen close to the west bank of the Rio Grande in northwestern El Paso, El Paso county, Texas on July 13, 2012: