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Polyommatus icarus
(Common Blue Butterfly)

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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Polyommatus icarus Rottemburg, 1775 (Common Blue Butterfly)

Date:	19 June 1971
Location:	East Norfolk, England
State:	Male imago
Record Summary:	Male

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