Cupido_alcetas

One from our last month in France, taken when watering my neighbour's garden. Blues were taking in minerals.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Nice one! There are so many blues, how do you keep them apart? Posted 9 years ago
1. Annette Flottwell
  
  Lion
  
  in Europe, that was easy
  http://www.butterfliesoffrance.com/blues_ID.htm
  and my absolute favourite ID kit
  http://www.papillon-poitou-charentes.org/-Identification-des-papillons-.html
  this here has excellent 'similar' links
  try the blues here
  http://www.lepidoptera.eu/show.php?ID=153&country=ES
  and the head of the page allows you to choose from lots of languages.
  
  In Costa Rica, there aren't many. We have skippers to confuse us.
  In Malaysia, it is something for experts only. The easy ones are ok, but I have still some unidentified ones.
  http://www.lepidoptera.eu/show.php?ID=153&country=ES Posted 9 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Thanks for that, very useful! Posted 9 years ago

The Provençal short-tailed blue

''Cupido alcetas'', the Provençal short-tailed blue, is a small butterfly that belongs to the family Lycaenidae.
First described from Austria by Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg in 1804, it occurs locally in Southern and Central Europe, Turkey, the Urals, Southern Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan. Larvae feed on leaves and inflorescences of various herbaceous plants of the family Fabaceae and are myrmecophiles, living in association with ants of the genus ''Formica''. Depending on the location,.. more

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Similar species: Moths And Butterflies

Species identified by Annette Flottwell