#2779 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Scarce Large Blue

🇳🇱 Pimpernelblauwtje ·Phengaris teleius

NTnear threatened 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bogdan Mazur · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © あるたるふ · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
4. Netherlands:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Noord-Brabant, NL:© Joey Bom · CC BY 4.0
6. Netherlands:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Netherlands:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Noord-Brabant, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. Noord-Brabant, NL:© Aart Broekema · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Noord-Brabant, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The scarce large blue ( Phengaris teleius ) is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, northern Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine and East across the Palearctic to Japan. The species was first described by Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser in 1779.

base stats

NL sightings 48iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,627iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 48 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
1,627 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser in 1779 (247 years ago).