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Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

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Field Notes

Habitat:

Plombières.

Species ID Suggestions

Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

Comments (2)

Many thanks bayucca, for taking time in IDing this butterfly! With these I never dare to give an ID myself anymore, as they are so variable. I suggested Lycaena or Lysandra because they figure as species found in Plombières but the Polyommatus is also certainly here in Belgium so you must be right ;-)
Usually not so easy to determine from only a ventral view, but in my eyes yours is Polyommatus icarus. http://www.natur-schmetterlinge.ch/schmetterlinge-nach-familie/lycaenidae-bläulinge/polyommatus-icarus-hauhechelbläuling/ http://www.pyrgus.de/Polyommatus_icarus.html http://www.schmetterling-raupe.de/art/icarus.htm

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