Ukrainian Butterflies from "ALEXANOR"
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Long - Term Monitoring of Papilionoidea & Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera, Insecta) Populations of West Ukraine.
Photo 2. Male and female of Glaucopsyche alexis Poda in couple on branch of Populus sp., 3.May.1997, section N3, site Bene Hill-1, 22.47' 48.10', NE, Transcarpathia.
The Green-underside Blue. "In this mating pair, the female is to the right. In the final stages courtship the male seizes the tip of the female abdomen with some special claspers in the genitalia. The mating pair may sit in this position for hours; they can fly while mating, by try avoid doing so". The same was described by Turben B. Larsen (1984:64) in case with African Grass Blue (Zizeria knysna). Photo made by the author of this homepage. |
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