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Dave R
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Spain Butterfly

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Can someone help with id of butterfly seen in southern Spain last week
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That's a speckled wood, of the south western subspecies aegeria.

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Dave R
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Re: Spain Butterfly

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Thanks, just had a Speckled Wood in the garden this morning, have to say looks very different from this sub-species but looking it up can see that's what it was.
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