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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gavia_immer" data-source="post: 1525157" data-attributes="member: 65934">Well, folks, I have a little shock for you all. Do you remember the very battered possible Escher's Blue taken by Balkantrek in Bulgaria? I have attached the pic again so you know what I am refering to. Well, IT ISN'T AN ESCHER'S BLUE after all! Sorry guys but I see that clearly now. I didn't take notice of something that inmediately tells you it isn't a Polyommatus. I realised that now that I am working with the Plebicula species. It is the first 3 spots of the arch on the underwing. It is a pattern similar to the Plebicula Blues (1rst spot away from the second and third) only that it isn't a Plebicula either as it clearly has black around the orange lunules.Which other 'Blues' have a similar pattern? The ARICIA species, the Arguses, with their already famous 2 offset spots!!! How is it that no-one of us has seen that? Probably my own fault as I assured you all from the beginning that it was a Polyommatus.I don't think I am dreaming when I say I see a trace of checkered pattern on the fringes. And that matches with the Arguses. Check this link for Blue argus (Aricia/Ultraaricia anteros), please:<a href="http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_pages/anteros.htm" target="_blank">http://www.eurobutterflies.com/species_pages/anteros.htm</a>If it isn't that one, might be a Mountain Argus. And both species are found in mountainous areas of Bulgaria, so there is a good chance it might be one of those species.</blockquote>

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