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Aricia agestis, the brown argus, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic realm , north to northern Jutland ( Denmark ) and east to Siberia and the Tian Shan .
Aricia cramera, the southern brown argus, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is a butterfly of Southern Europe and North Africa and can be found from Morocco and Tunisia up to Spain and Portugal, on Mediterranean islands including Menorca and on the Canary Islands. The wingspan ranges to up to 30 mm. The butterfly flies from May to ...
The northern English populations belong to a form called salmacis (called the Durham argus in English [1]) and are very similar to the brown argus including the presence of black spots on the under-wing (see photo) hence all the confusion. In Europe where it is known as the mountain argus, it is widespread in Scandinavia and mountainous regions ...
Aricia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. ... (Fabricius, 1793) – northern brown argus; Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821) – southern brown argus;
Chequered blue butterfly, Scolitantides orion (Pallas 1771) Brown argus, Aricia agestis, (Denis & Schiffermüller 1775) Northern brown argus, Aricia allous (Geyer, 1837) Southern brown argus, Aricia cramera (Eschscholtz, 1821) Silvery argus, Aricia nicias Meigen, 1830; Geranium argus, Eumedonia eumedon (Esper 1780)
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Green hairstreak Brown hairstreak Brown argus Northern brown argus Chalkhill blue Holly blue. Subfamily Theclinae. Green hairstreak – Callophrys rubi LC – throughout much of country. Brown hairstreak – Thecla betulae V – south of the Humber estuary, with concentrations in south-west Wales, north Devon and south-west Somerset, and west ...
Common rock-rose is the only host plant for the northern brown argus butterfly. Some of these species cling to the rough cliff verticals where patches of soil are found, while most of these species grow on the fertile blufftop soil tangent to the agricultural soils immediately west, which grow barley and other grains as well as afford pasture ...