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Agrodiaetus amanda

Amanda's Blue

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Valais, Switzerland, June 2007

 

High Atlas, Morocco, July 2005

ssp. abdelazis

 

High Atlas, Morocco, July 2005

ssp. abdelazis

 

Valais, Switzerland, June 2008
Larval food plant, Vicia

 

High Atlas, Morocco, July 2005

ssp. abdelazis

 

Pelopennesos, Greece, June 2002

 

Valais, Switzerland, June 2003
 

Valais, Switzerland, June 2003
 

Valais, Switzerland, June 2003
 

Pelopennesos, Greece, June 2002

 

This is a large and distinctive blue. The male has lovely pale blue uppersides that gleam in sunlight and wide forewing borders. The undersides are a pale dove grey.

It flies across central and southern Europe. I only ever find it in the mountains where it is lives in discrete colonies and may be fairly common. The males like taking salt and both sexes are often found feeding at alpine flowers.

 

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