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Agrodiaetus exuberans

Verity's Anomalous Blue

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Val Susa, Piedmont, Italy, July 2010
 

Val Susa, Piedmont, Italy, July 2010

This brief courtship display was the only opportunity to see the upperwing.
The dark lined veins on the male upperside are supposedly characteristic of this taxon.

 

There is DNA evidence that shows that this is at best a local form of the more widespread Ripart's Anomalous Blue, A. ripartii. Honestly, from my limited experience of the present species, it is difficult to see any difference between exuberans and ripartii.

It is extremely local in a restricted range, known only from the Val Susa in NW Italy. Hot dry rocky slopes with flowers.

 

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