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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gavia_immer" data-source="post: 1572840" data-attributes="member: 65934">Chapter 6: The Plebejus BluesThis a really tricky group. These are small blue butterflies with blue studs inside the black dots of the submarginal area. All the Plebejus species lack the cell spot of the Common Blue and Lysandra species. They usually have very broad pure white fringes and the lower black part of the black dot in the orange lunules isn't surrounded by white, unlike the Polyommatus species where the black dots are usually more or less completely surrounded by white.The main problem with this group is that they are extremely variable. Not only they have many different subspecies but they also are very variable within populations.What I am going to show in the next posts are the main ID tips for each species and show pics of typical individuals. But bare in mind that quite a number of the specimens you find in the wild, won't belong clearly to one certain species.The pic of this post shows a classical Plebejus species. Very special thanks to our Cristian, who very kindly let me use his superb shot to illustrate this post :t:</blockquote>