Lycaenidae

Regarding the wing pattern of pigeons and skepticism about its use. I attach to this post one of Shvanvich's works,

From all of the above, it is quite obvious that the main features of wing patterns in pigeons are limited to the level of subfamilies and partly tribes.

And lower macrotaxons can be distinguished mainly by genitalia

Do you have the ability to sequence them? Then it would be possible, at a minimum, to exclude vandarbani. According to Sanudo-Restrepo, C. P., et al. Biogeography and systematics of Aricia butterflies (2012), anteros and vandarbani differ well in COI, while anteros and crassipuncta do not.

If you are interested, can I "throw up to the heap" anteros ?this year's dombaiensis from the south of North Ossetia (Nar)

A friend collected a golubyanka in North Ossetia.
This is an interesting one. I'm still scratching my head - what is it?
Polyommatus amandus is most suitable, but it is much larger and very bright from below.
Maybe a hybrid of something with something?

As you don't feed the caterpillar, the butterfly, in my opinion, will no longer exist.
The same kind of heterosis that occurs during hybridization in the first generation.

Then, it seems, there are two options, with whom she, flying, could "catch her tongue" - thersites or eros ?

Of course, Amanda, no matter how you feed her, will not grow up to be the size of a swallowtail.
But, with a combination of all the favorable development conditions, Amanda will still reach the maximum size for this species.
That is, if the caterpillar is "well" fed, then the butterfly will be larger.

Plebejidea cyane cyane (Eversmann, 1837) from the Southern Urals. Orenburg region, Kuvandyk, 26.06.2014

The largest specimen of a male amanda in my collection from the Caucasus is 33 mm in span (the length of the leading edge of the wing is 18 mm).
The one that was in the picture - 36 mm (20mm, respectively).
Who has more?

The largest specimen of a male amanda in my collection from the Caucasus is 33 mm in span (the length of the leading edge of the wing is 18 mm).
Who has more?

In Nakhchivan, on the Zangezur ridge (1,900 m), I collected a pair of Aricia.
I can't tell.
For Aricia anteros, it is very small (22 mm in span) and dark. For Aricia vandarbani, it is too blue and there are no pronounced marginal orange spots on the front wing.
Could it be Aricia anteros crassipuncta? I don't have any comparative material yet, and I'm not sure about the definition from the pictures.
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The largest specimen of a male amanda in my collection from the Caucasus is 33 mm in span (the length of the leading edge of the wing is 18 mm).
The one that was in the picture - 36 mm (20mm, respectively).
Who has more?

crassipuncta. Only this is a long time ago kind of already.

They are up to 42 mm in wingspan. It depends on how you eat.

How do I show them? Take a trip to St. Petersburg, take a look at the Institute.

Type or subspecies - there is no consensus.
According to the molecular model, it is still a subspecies of anteros (and not only in terms of COI, but also in terms of ITS2.
In addition, hybridization and overlapping of traits are noted.

It's fresh. Broke in and tore it up.
Here are such nonche guests.
And some doctors of science spoil the eyes of sequencers.

Colleagues, tell me, and what are the instructions about Iolana iolas allegedly for the territory of Ukraine?