#3040 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Amanda's Blue

🇳🇱 Wikkeblauwtje ·Polyommatus amandus

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Иван Тисленко · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Tero Laakso · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Tero Laakso · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Михаил Малышев · CC BY 4.0
7. Batak, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria:© Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Russia, Aliai Republic, Ust'-Koksa District, the northern principal slope of the Katunskie Belki Mountain Range, the Oroktoy Brook valley, the Konoplyanaya Polyana glade:© Oleg Kosterin · CC BY 4.0
9. Westgriechenland, Griechenland:© Markus Dumke · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 中国河北省张家口市崇礼区:© shikiiiiiiiii · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Polyommatus amandus , the Amanda's blue , is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,629iNaturalist observations

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,629 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1792 (234 years ago).