Blue ID Help

[Catteraxe]

The photo below was taken in the Parc du Mercantour at 1000m on July 1st. As usual assistance with ID is greatly appreciated.

Kevin

[Padfield]

The gleaming wings, the two-tone fringe, the black lines coming in from the edges, the rather thick marginal line and the lack of furry androconial scales all point to dorylas (turquoise blue) in my view.

Guy

PS - compare those features with this dorylas, photographed this year:

[Catteraxe]

Thanks Guy. I was a bit thrown by the faint spotting on the rear wings.

Kevin.

[Padfield]

I've just scanned through my pictures and while most have no spotting a few have light spotting, similar to yours:



Guy

[David M]

Well done, Kev. Turquoise Blue is an ever present on that track, but you need keen eyes to hunt them down as you only ever seem to see isolated singletons.