Agriades pyrenaicus, the Gavarnie blue, is a Palearctic butterfly of the family Lycaenidae."Agriades Hübner, " at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms It is found in the Asturias Mountains of north-western Spain, the Pyrenees, the southern Balkan Peninsula, Turkey, the Caucasus and Armenia.Agriades dardanus at euroButterflies The habitat consists of alpine grassy rocky meadows where it is found at altitudes ranging from 1,500 to 2,200 meters.Agriades pyrenaicus at euroButterflies
The wingspan is 22–28 mm.asturnatura The wings are grey suffused with blue and the wings are bordered by a white line. On the upperside a grey discal spot centers each wing, on the underside the forewings are decorated with black dots circled in white and the hindwings have a sub-marginal line of white dots some centered yellow.
The larvae feed on Androsace species.
Subspecies A. p. pyrenaicus (central Pyrenees) A. p. asturiensis (Oberthür, 1910) (Picos de Europa) A. p. dardanus (Freyer, 1844) - Balkan blue (Balkans, Asia Minor, Caucasus, Armenia)IUCN Redlist Plebejus dardanus smaller than pyrenaicus, and the pale spots of the hindwing beneath with more distinct black centres.Adalbert Seitz in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) A. p. ergane (Higgins, 1981) (Ukraine, Russia)
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