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Balkan Copper
Lycaena candens
Lycaena candens is a small butterfly found in the Palearctic (Southeast Europe and Caucasus) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
From the article Lycaena candens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The males have no blue sheen and the forewing above is entirely golden brown in the females; the black margin of the upperside is narrower in both sexes.
Wikipedia: “Description from Seitz”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 465762.