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Hi,

Just been going through my old pictures and came across this one, is it just normal variation for this Common Blue Female to have such a pronounced dark Band and so few Orange spots (sorry best pic I have).

Thanks

Andy

No - she's beyond the range of normal variation.

She very much resembles this unnamed aberration in the Cockayne Collection:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/ ... xonID=9467

Guy

Thanks for that Guy I can confidently put that in my Aberrant Common Blue folder

Cheers

Andy

I too have a common blue question (or is it ? )
i was taking pictures of common blues on a North Wales beach when i got only one picture of this little fella
same size as the common blues
not the best of pictures either but being new to photography and butterflies no doubt this is going to be a common question from me

Definitely a female Common Blue which, as we can see from this page, are quite variable in terms of the amount of blue scaling.

Cheers,

- Pete

i take it that these are two males then?????

Absolutely correct!

Trev

ive got a lot to learn