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Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 56,716, February 41,889, March 65,631, April 103,253, May 148,874, June 162,338, July 173,712, August 149,392, September 109,680, October 81,868, November 44,736, December 34,965.
United States1,177,328
Alaska1,173,055
United Kingdom9,147
Canada8,589
Germany8,358
England7,902
France7,566
Russia6,069
Italy5,222
Ontario4,609

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
GenusPolyommatus

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