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Tired sepcimen making ID difficult!
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:47 am
by admiral halsey
Anyone help id this one please? The markings suggest a blue, but i didn't get a look at the topside
Thanks
Rich
Re: Tired sepcimen making ID difficult!
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:40 am
by Padfield
That is a female common blue. The general pattern indicates a blue and the cell spot (a second spot towards the base of the forewing cell) indicates common blue or Adonis blue (or chalkhill blue in season). From what I can see, this individual is a common blue, though in that condition I can't definitively rule out Adonis.
Guy
Re: Tired sepcimen making ID difficult!
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:01 am
by admiral halsey
Thanks Guy. If it, helps the location is Willow Park, Basildon, Essex.
Cheers
Rich
Re: Tired sepcimen making ID difficult!
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:03 am
by Padfield
Then instincts were right - definitely common blue.
Guy
Re: Tired sepcimen making ID difficult!
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:01 pm
by admiral halsey
Thanks
Rich