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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davebutterflyman" data-source="post: 1521043" data-attributes="member: 74026">We certainly like a challenge on here!!...this is great actually as you really have to dig deep to get the old brain matter going!.Battered blues...now thats a question,the amount of times i'm sure we have all thought "thats too far gone for me to bother with,lets go and look for a nice easy hungarian glider or spanish festoon" but this is the true essence of butterfly watching and the more battered the better....well,maybe not that battered!!.Anyway,i digress...onto these four,and thanks for posting those Balkantrek.Image 1. I'm going to get back to this one later on today but Gavia's attempt looks pretty good. Image 2. I'll go with Gavia's excellent summary on this and agree Brown argus.If you zoom in you can just about see the chequered fringes and the two black forewing dots on and around the second anterior forewing vein also look ok.Plus the orange lunules reach beyond the sub apex into the apex on the upper forewing whereas on female common blue they usually only reach to the fifth vein and not beyond.Image 3. I think Gavia again is right with this one with the orange lunules bordered by black on both sides and are indented in the submargin and go all the way on the under forewing and the last lunule close to the apex is just visible.Image 4. Again i agree with Gavia and P.icarus is the culprit! No,i'm only joking as i have a lot of fond memories with this species as it was the first blue butterfly i ever saw and it put me on the road to being totally mad about butterflies and i never tire of seeing them.Dave.</blockquote>

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