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Cigaritis allardi

Allard's Silver Lines

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High Atlas, Morocco, July 2005
 

High Atlas, Morocco, July 2005
 

High Atlas, Morocco, July 2005
 

High Atlas, Morocco, July 2005

Habitat of the above butterfly - 2100m.
 

Peter Rowlings

Middle Atlas, Morocco, May 1998
 

 
This is a lovely butterfly. There are three species of Cigaritis in the W European zoological zone, and this is the brightest. It is characterised by the extensive white underside ground colour, the markings in the lower part of the post underside hindwing discal area join with the marks in the discal area to form a roughly continuous line, rather than with the the upper post discal markings. The submarginal black spots are rather small and clearly distinct.

It flies only in north Africa in Algeria and Morocco where it can be found from near sealevel (we found it at 150m in mid March 2001 - I have no photos of this because I recorded over the tape) to high altitudes into May and June. It seems to prefer open places with just a few shrubs on very hot slopes.

 

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