This is the main species of butterfly I am seeing this year. The blue wash on the hind wings indicates a female, though this “light-morph” differs greatly from the “dark-morph” that occurs in females through much of the species’ range, especially in southern states (BugGuide).
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* A single specimen was captured by a boy at Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland in late September (or early October) 1932 and is believed to have been accidentally imported from North America.
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