Provençal short-tailed blue
The Provençal short-tailed blue is a small butterfly. The boys are blue-purple on top and the girls are brown. Near the back corner of each hind wing it has a thin, very short tail.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars live side by side with ants.
The underside of its wings is pale blue-grey with small black dots ringed in blue.
In warm places it can have three families in one year.
It lives in flowery meadows, damp bushy places and forest clearings, up to 1200 metres high.
Most asked questions about Provençal short-tailed blue
?Where does the Provençal short-tailed blue live?
In southern and central Europe, Turkey, southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan.
?How can you tell it from the short-tailed blue?
The short-tailed blue always has two orange spots under its back wing. The Provençal one usually has none.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Everes alcetas
- Named by
- Hoffmannsegg, 1804
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cupido alcetas (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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