Polyommatus venus

Polyommatus venus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1886. The type locality is Kirghizia.

L. venus Stgr. (80e). Recognizable by the peculiar dazzling but not very metallic blue of the males. It is a deep sky-blue, not a violet-blue as in icarus, and not a green-blue as in eros. The female dark brown with more or less distinct reddish yellow marginal spots. Beneath similar to icarus and like this with basal ocelli on the forewing and blue-green sealing at the base, but the spots mostly more prominent the median streak of the hindwing sometimes vestigial (as in our figure) or more distinct, the red submarginal spots further away from the margin and the row of dots placed at its proximal side situated in a narrow white band formed by the pale borders of the ocelli being merged. Turkestan and Tibet (Amdo).