Has the appearance of a small form of the preced ing [L. aliardii]  ; male above very vividly glossy blue, almost as in bellargus but darker; the female above brown with yellowish red spots in the anal area of the hindwing.

— But another form, which flies at Sharud and in Baluchistan and agrees in size with true loewii, is said to be paler violet-blue and has been named chamanica Moore [now full species].

[4] Northeast Africa, Aegean Islands, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Caucasus and Transcaucasia, Russia (Central Caucasus), Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan[5][6] This species lives very locally on dry stony meadows and other xerophytic biotopes or subalpine meadows.

Puppies in shelters - under the bushes of a forage plant or in cracks in the soil, attaching to the substrate a spider's loop.

The pupa stage is 12–15 days[7] Named for the German entomologist Hermann Loew who collected the first specimens in Turkey.