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Lycaena virgaureae
A male scarce copper (Lycaena virgaureae). There are 12 species in Europe, of which virgaureae is certainly not the scarcest, despite its rather misleading common name, which refers to the fact that the species has been dubiously recorded in Britain as a great rarity. In Europe virgaureae is a quite common species, found in central Spain, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central of France, and from the western foothills of the Alps to Greece and Turkey. It also occurs across most of temperate ( Holarctic ) Asia, reaching east as far as Mongolia.
Mountain open wood.
Spotted on Jun 25, 2017
Submitted on Jun 26, 2017
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