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Common blue

Polyommatus icarus

Description:

Female common blue

Habitat:

Urban park (Tempelhofer Feld)

Notes:

First two photos are definitely the same individual. Other three may also show the same individual or possibly another individual of the same species: there were several of them visiting the same patch of wild flowers.

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4 Comments

Hannah Davis
Hannah Davis 8 years ago

@bayucca It does indeed look very similar, but I'm not sure if we have those in Berlin.. Wikipedia says they're found in southern Europe.

Hannah Davis
Hannah Davis 8 years ago

Thanks! :)

bayucca
bayucca 8 years ago

Could also be Polyommatus thersites.

Nishant
Nishant 8 years ago

Lovely spotting!

Hannah Davis
Spotted by
Hannah Davis

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Spotted on Aug 15, 2015
Submitted on Aug 15, 2015

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