Polyommatus phyllis
species of insect
Polyommatus phyllis is a butterfly found in the Palearctic (North Iran, Kopet-Dagh) that belongs to the blues family.
Description from Seitz
L. phyllis Christ. (81 g). Male above sea-green, with a silvery silky gloss; female dark brown, with a distinct discocellular spot on the forewing. On the underside both sexes have a very sharply defined conspicuous mesial streak which extends from the base across some ocelli to the outer margin. From Persia. — posthumus Christ. (81h) is a mountain-form. The male beneath was much more dusted with verdigris at the base, usually smaller and the upperside of a more bluish tinge. Female strongly marked with dark, the veins deeper black and more prominent.
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