Common Blue; Dos puntos

Description:

It is a male. Small butterfly with ca. 30 mm wingspan. Male uppersides are lilac blue with a thin black border. Females are brown above with of red spots along the edges and usually some blue at the base of the wings. Undersides have a greyish ground colour in the males and a more brownish in the females. Both sexes have a row of red spots along the edge of the hindwings and extending onto the forewings, though they are generally fainter there, particularly in the males, where they are sometimes missing altogether. There are about a dozen black-centered white spots on the hindwings, nine on the forewings. It is easy to confuse with Aricia cramera when only the underside is seen. The distribution of dots is slightly different.

Habitat:

Spotted at a pine tree (Pinus pinaster) and evergreen oak (Quercus illex) forest. Dehesa de Valdelatas, Madrid

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D500. Exposure Time: 1/160 sec.; f/11; ISO Speed Rating: 1400. Focal Length: 90.0 mm. No flash fired. DSC_2053