Nature By NameSign inCreate an account

Insects › Gossamer-winged Butterflies

Black-eyed Blue

Glaucopsyche melanops

Learn Black-eyed Blue freeHow it works
Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) cristina-carvalho, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

See all photosAdd a photo

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 0, February 21, March 102, April 371, May 279, June 55, July 4, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 1.
Spain833
Portugal396
France302
Andalucía289
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur169
Occitanie115
Cataluña/Catalunya102
Comunidad de Madrid95
Galicia86
FARO81

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyGossamer-winged Butterflies · Lycaenidae
GenusGlaucopsyche

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Black-eyed Blue with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

Create a free accountHow it works