Polyommatus dorylas
         
Turquoise Blue  
L'azuré du mélilot  
           
 
 
   
1] male of Polyommatus dorylas alt.1700m - Hautes Pyrénées (France) - 16/07/2013   2] same specimen as 1]
 
 
       
       
   
3] male alt.1650m - Alpes de Haute Provence (France) - 08/07/2011
 
  4] male alt.1750m - Hautes Pyrénées (France) - 23/07/2008
 
 
       
       
   
5] same specimen as 4]   6] same specimen as 4]  
       
       
   
7] male alt.700m  - Alpes de Haute Provence - 27/07/2014   8] male alt.565m - Pyrénées orientales (France) - 17/05/2012  
       
       
   
9] male alt.420m - Var (France) - 30/07/2011   10] same specimen as 9]  
       
       
   
11] male alt.565m - Pyrénées orientales (France) - 17/05/2012   12] male alt.1500m - Hautes Pyrénées (France) - 11/07/2013  
       
       
   
13] males puddling alt.1700m - Hautes Pyrénées (France) - 04/07/2020   14] close-up of a male from the scene shown in 13]
 
 
       
       
   
15] female of Polyommatus dorylas alt.420m - Var (France) - 30/07/2011   16] same specimen as 15]
 
 
       
       
   
17]  female alt.900m - Alpes maritimes (France) - 14/07/2011   18] same specimen as 16]  
       
       
   
19] female alt.732m - Var (France) - 31/08/2013   20] other female alt.732m - Var (France) - 31/08/2013  
       
       
   
21] same specimen as 20]   22] same specimen as 20]  
       
       
   
23] female alt.732m - Var (France) - 30/07/2011   24] same specimen as 23]  
       
       
   
25] female alt.1000m - Hautes Alpes (France) - 05/06/2015   26] same specimen as 25]  
       
       
   
27] female with unusual blue scaling alt.565m - Pyrénées orientales (France) - 17/05/2012   28] same specimen as 27]
 
 
       
       
   
29] female alt.1500m - Hautes Pyrénées (France) - 01/07/2018
 
  30] same female as  29]
 
 
       
       
   
31] mating pair (female on the left) alt.900m - Alpes maritimes (France) - 14/07/2011   32] mating pair (female on the right) alt.650m - Var (France) - 08/08/2014  
       
       
   
33] mating pair (female on the left) alt.1920m - Hautes Alpes (France) - 10/07/2021   34] female laying on Anthyllis vulneraria alt.1050m - Aude (France) - 06/06/2022  
       
       
   
35] close-up of an egg laid by the female from picture 34]   36] same egg as 35]  
       
       
 
37] habitat in the Alpes de Haute Provence alt.1650m (France) - 08/07/2011  
       
       
       
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