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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Emerson" data-source="post: 1542386" data-attributes="member: 53821">Cheers for that.  I was unaware that there were different colour forms of the females, but having looked at a few pictures it does fit blue-form female Common Blue nicely (albeit maybe newly emerged as a few segments haven't got the blue colouring yet).  Also handy to know about the antehumeral stripes, probably easier to see at distance than the segement two marks in the field.Thanks again,James</blockquote>