Aricia morronensis

Aricia morronensis, the Spanish argus, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.

[3] Adults are on wing from June to September in usually one, but sometimes two generations per year.

[4] The larvae feed on the leaves of Erodium species.

Above black-brown with dark median spot on the forewing, the fringes pale, only slightly darkened at the tips of the veins.

Underside coffee-brown, with feeble reddish tinge, the ocelli being similarly arranged as in astrarche; the hindwing with pale longitudinal streak from the centre of the wing to the middle of the outer margin, the streak being generally much more prominent than in our figure.

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