Large blue butterfly
| Large Blue Conservation status: Lower risk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Maculinea arion (Linnaeus, 1758) |
The Large Blue (Maculinea arion) is a blue butterfly. It is resident in Europe and Asia. It went extinct in the United Kingdom in 1979, but has since been reintroduced by conservationists.
External links
- http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/atta/Pages/LargeBl.html
- http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/index.html?/species/bdata/large_blue.html
- http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature/inverteb/largeblue.htm
- http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/environment/html/nat_con/papers/largeblue.htm
Categories: Invertebrate stubs | Butterflies