Mary C Legg, Mary C Legg, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 5583270
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Descriptor:
Adult(s)
Image view:
Lateral / Side
Description:
Chalk Hill Blue, Polyommtus coridon. Blue butterfly with datin baby blue upperwings. Colonuizes in calcareous grasslands to about 2100m. Larval plants: Hippocrepis and Coronilla varia. Flies single generation June- October. Low-flying blue which is fairly sedentary. Myrmecophile: tended by Lasius, Plagiolepis, Formica, Myrmica, Tetramorium. syn: Lysandra coridon, Polyommatus corydon, Polyommatus apennin syn: Lysandra coridon, Polyommatus corydon, Polyommatus apennin
Image type:
Field
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Image location:
Czechia, Milovice
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Image taken:
Sunday, August 5, 2018
Image uploaded:
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Image last updated:
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
