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Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)

Common names

  • 🇬🇧 Common Blue
  • 🇫🇷 Azuré de la Bugrane, Argus bleu, Azuré d’Icare, Icare, Lycène Icare, Argus Icare

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Class: Insecta
  • Order: Lepidoptera
  • Family: Lycaenidae
  • Subfamily: Polyommatinae
  • Tribe: Polyommatini
  • Subtribe: Polyommatina
  • Genus: Polyommatus
  • Species: Polyommatus icarus

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
  • Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus ♂ sitting on a flower of Plantago sp.
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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus ♀ foraging on a flower of Centaurea jacea
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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus
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Polyommatus icarus ♂ (top) and ♀ (bottom) mating

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