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Small Blue
Cupido minimus
The small blue (Cupido minimus) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Despite its common name, it is not particularly blue. The male has some bluish suffusion at the base of its upper wings but is mostly dark brown like the female. The species can live in colonies of up to several hundred and in its caterpillar stage is cannibalistic. The small blue is known for being the smallest butterfly found in the United Kingdom. It...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.227
Herbarius
1485 · p.130
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.609
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.568
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.774
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 8 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.5
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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 129126.