Black-eyed Blue

Glaucopsyche melanops

Found only in Southern Europe, mainly Spain & North Africa.

 Larva pale green, with thin dark markings; a brownish dorsal stripe and a white side-line, between which a dark green pencilling; head black.

The Larvae feed on Fabaceae species.

Above similar to the smallest varieties of cyllarus, but the ocelli of the forewing beneath are enlarged, usually much more than in our figure; the row, moreover, is strongly curved and the ocelli gradually increase in size from the first to the fifth, the sixth ocellus, if present, being smaller again.

The butterfly flies from May to July depending on the location.