LYCAENIDAE | Theclinae | Eumaeini

61.007 Satyrium pruni (Black Hairstreak)

ws: 34-40mm; late Jun to early Jul; blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); confined to woodland on clay soils between Oxford and Peterborough with most colonies in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Picture
Satyrium pruni (Black Hairstreak) ยง1
ID: Underside hindwing with a subterminal orange band with a row of black crescents at its distal margin and a row of black spots at its proximal margin.
§1 Brampton Wood, Cambridgeshire; 12/06/2014
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 17/07/2014 (§1)