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Blue Argus
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Blue Argus

Aricia anteros

Aricia anteros, the blue argus, is a European butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It has a wingspan of 30-34 mm. In Europe it can be found in Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Ukraine and in Turkey. Its primary food plant is geranium.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 465600.