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Common blue

Polyommatus icarus

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Field Notes

Description:

Single butterfly on mountain path 1900 m

Habitat:

Alp meadows

Species ID Suggestions

Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

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Rubens Araujo
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Comments (2)
Ashish
Also look alike Small Blue (Cupido minimus)
Dangermouse
Part of the 'blue' family, perhaps a mazarine blue (cyaniris semiargus).

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PublishedSeptember 4, 2011

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