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Aricia anteros
| Blue argus | |
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| Courting pair | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Aricia |
| Species: | A. anteros
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| Binomial name | |
| Aricia anteros (Freyer, 1838)
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Aricia anteros, the blue argus, is a European butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It has a wingspan of 30–34 mm. In Europe it can be found in Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Ukraine and in Turkey. Its primary larval food plants are Geranium sanguineum and Geranium macrorrhizum .[1]
- ^ Aricia anteros Archived 2019-05-11 at the Wayback Machine at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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