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Polyommatus icarus
Polyommatus icarus!
http://www.danske-natur.dk/icarus.htm
Yes, I am a professional, but not on Project Noah!
I just have seen millions of critters the last few years, I think I still have good eyes and a good memory and I am rather quick with searching. That's all, I am not an expert!
I don't know if this will help but I found this site.
http://www.danske-natur.dk/indexsyv.html...
In my modest eyes, Plebejus optilete has more dark/grey margins compared to yours and Icarus. Range might be OK, but Roskilde seems for me not really be marshy and higher level altitude matching.
@Jellis, thanks :) That's a great spotting! I'll try not to despair of my location, haha, and will be further encouraged to travel more! @FaredinAliyevski, that is a beautiful beetle, although I don't know much about it. I never finished my PhD because I was anxious to get to work. After mosquitoes were no longer a hot topic, I switched to biochemistry and molecular biology (DNA repair proteins important in cancer) as a profession. Good luck in Paris, my favorite city! The internal body clock of drosophila and the negative feedback loop of their molecular clock is so fascinating!
@ Christine, then we are almost colleagues. I'm a molecular ecologist and worked with rhagium mordax but soon moving to Paris to do PhD in biological clock of drosophila.
@ bayucca, this butterfly could also be this one, http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_p.... I'm kind of lost :)
Christine, sometimes you can be amazed. I didn't think I could see much and last month I took a picture of a small butterfly not knowing it turned out to be the smallest butterfly in the world. Keep looking, you'll find more then you thought you would.
Yes! I love seeing all the amazing and diverse spottings coming from those areas! Hopefully it will help conservation efforts! I have a master's degree in entomology (mosquitoes were my specialty), and am in awe of all the insect spottings posted on Project Noah that I have never even heard of!
@ bayucca, true Denmark is not suposed to be better with wildlife than switzerland but I'm getting surprised with all the butterfly species I encounter. Today I got another one really amazing, trying to find what species it is and I will upload. @ Christine Y., maybe we are when compared to your area but the real lucky ones are the ones living on the equator horizon. They have the highest biodiversity.
bayucca and FaredinAliyevski are very lucky to live in areas of the world with such enormous diversity! I live in semi-urban Connecticut, where I mostly just see ants and flies with a few butterflies here and there. Haha!
It is even hard to get close, harder to tell them what you would like that they should do and hardest to get a sharp picture! That's butterfly life, you should not have it better in Denmark, than me in Switzerland...;-))!
They are damn hard to identify especially when you can't take a photo of the underside.
Bayucca, you are right! There is not other option. Unfortunately I never succeeded to get shots with closed wings.
Do not work too hard! I think it is Polyommatus icarus, but I am sceptic if it is serious enough to take that ID with the knowledge about the very similar open wing shots. Any other candidates besides Icarus and Thersites I already have kicked out...
What do think? Any other picture?
Thanks everyone for the help and nice comments. Finally I have the time to work on the ID :)
Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae, Polyommatus sp., it is either Polyommatus icarus or Polyommatus thersites. I tend to Common Blue, Polyommatus icarus, but without a ventral view we can't be 100% sure. The range for Thersites might be a little far away in Denmark. But there are many reports from Germany.
Look under Lycaenidae Polyommatinae and check them. Some are coppers, some are blues
Spotted on Jun 5, 2013
Submitted on Jun 5, 2013
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