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Small Copper

Lycaena phlaeas

Photo by staccyh
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Description:

The upperside forewings are a bright orange with a dark outside edge border and with eight or nine black spots. The hindwings are dark with an orange border. Some females also have a row of blue spots inside the orange border and are known as form caeruleopunctata. The undersides are patterned in a similar way but are paler. The black spots on the forewings are outlined in yellow and the dark colouring is replaced by a pale brownish, gray. The hindwings are the same brown/grey colour with small black dots and a narrow orange border - Wikipedia

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Small Copper

Lycaena phlaeas

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Thanks Marta and Ratheesh!

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