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Sloe Hairstreak
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Geneva,
Switzerland, mid June 2007
Already appears worn. |
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SE Czech
Republic, June 2001 (m) |
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Slovakia, June
2001 The female
is on the right - the orange marks on the underside hindwing
extend further forward than in the male |
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Macedonia,
Greece, July 2000 (m) |
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This is
one of the fairly "bland" grey-brown Hairstreaks found across
southern and central Europe. This species doesn't extend south of
northern Spain but it is found across the whole of central Europe
including the east. It is separated from its most similar cousins, the
Ilex and False Ilex Hairstreaks, Satyrium ilicis and S. esculi,
by its lighter grey underside ground colour, smaller size and the
underside hindwing orange markings all touching and confined toe the
lower half of the wing. In reality it isn't that difficult to tell apart
from these two species but until you've seen one you might be skeptical
about that! I've
recently been guilty of including the mating pair (see above) on the
page for the Blue Spot Hairstreak, S. spini. It might help others
to note that acaciae also has a blue spot, albeit somewhat
smaller than spini. At the anal angle has an orange patch just
beside this blue spot in acaciae. This is absent in spini. |
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