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Hautes Alpes,
France, August 2005 |
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Valais,
Switzerland, July 2006 |
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Valais,
Switzerland, September 2006 |
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Hautes Alpes,
France, August 2005 |
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Hautes Alpes,
France, August 2005 |
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Hautes Alpes,
France, August 2005 |
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Hautes Alpes,
France, August 2005 |
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Hautes Alpes,
France, August 2005 |
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Hautes Alpes,
France, August 2005 |
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Valais,
Switzerland, July 2004
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence,
Switzerland, July 2004
Female
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Valais,
Switzerland, July 2004
Browner
underside of female.
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence,
Switzerland, July 2004
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Valle d'Aosta,
Italy, July 2004
Feeding with
Piedmont Anomalous Blue, A. humedasae. |
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Alpes-de-Haute-Provence,
Switzerland, July 2004
Shining blue
of a fresh male.
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Valais,
Switzerland, July 2004
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Valais,
Switzerland, July 2004
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Alpes
Maritimes, Italy, August 2004
Communal drinking of salts. |
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Valais,
Switzerland, August 2002
Male, broad
boarders and gleaming blue uppersides. Unfortunately
my only photo of the male upperside. |
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Provence,
France, July 2003
Female, all
brown upperside |
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Provence,
France, August 2001
Strong
underside hindwing white stripe. |
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Provence,
France, July 2003 |
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Montes
Universales, Spain, August 2003
ssp. noguerae
Bright blue
uppersides separated this butterfly from the hundreds of Oberthur's
Anomalous Blues, A. fabressei, with which it was flying. |
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Montes
Universales, Spain, August 2003
Female (brown
uppersides) flying with male above. Large black spots.
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This is a species of the mountains. it is found in
the Pyrenees, Alps, Balkans and the Carpathians, plus the Montes
Universales in Spain. In these latter mountains the subspecies noguerae
flies although I'm not sure how it is supposed to differ from the
typical subspecies.
It flies in open grassy places where it is strongly attracted to
flowers. The males have a lovely soft but bright blue upperside with
characteristically broad borders. The females are much like most of the
other Agrodiaetus females with completely brown uppersides. Both
sexes sport a strong white underside streak. |
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