Amanda's Blue (Polyommatus amandus)
Species

Male. Taken at Velebits National Park, Croatia, on June 10th 2017.
(1/1250th sec at f16. © David Hastings)

Male underside. Taken at Bjelopolje, Croatia, on June 7th 2017.
(1/1000th sec at f10. © David Hastings)

Female. Taken at Baderitza, Bulgaria on July 26th 2015.
(1/800th sec at f14. © David Hastings)

Description

Family: Polyommatinae

Wing span: 36 - 38mm

The male Amanda's Blue has sky-blue upper surfaces with a dark, diffuse marginal band. The female is brown with orange submarginal lunules on the hindwing.

It is widespread through most of E Europe, but sporadic and rare in W Europe.

It is found in meadows and grasslands with scrub, roadsides, forest clearings and margins, and sheltered gullies and slopes up to 2000m.

There is one generation per year, with an extended emergence from late May to early August.

Larvae feed on Vetches (Vicia spp).

Sightings

11-Jun-2017 : Velebits National Park, Croatia
10-Jun-2017 : Velebits National Park, Croatia
08-Jun-2017 : Paklenica National Park, Croatia
07-Jun-2017 : Bjelopolje, Croatia

26-Jul-2015 : Baderitza, Bulgaria

23-Jun-2014 : Trigrad Gorge, Bulgaria
20-Jun-2014 : nr Dolna Kula, Bulgaria