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NATURE
Butterflies
Small Blue
Cupido minimus
Wingspan 25mm
Small and highly active. Local in England, Wales and S Ireland. Occurs where larval foodplant, kidney vetch, common, often on chalk grassland. Flies June-July. Upperwings smoky-brown, male with purplish iridescence. Underwings grey.



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