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Cyaniris semiargus (mazarine blue)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Polyommatus semiargus, the Mazarine blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The wingspan of the male and female are similar, at 32–38 mm. The Mazarine blue's population is distributed throughout continental Europe, even reaching into the Arctic Circle, Asia, the Middle East, and Morocco. There was a large native population in Britain in the early part of the 19th century, which disappeared before the 20th century, though single vagrants have been spotted, and some estimates of British resident extinction are as late as 1906. In 2009, UNESCO was researching a possible British reintroduction of the Mazarine blue to Britain.
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Pollinator of 
Ajuga reptans (common bugle)[1]
Trifolium repens (Ladino Clover)[1]

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1Ecology of Commanster
2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0