Small Copper Butterfly
Lycaena phlaeas
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Small Copper Butterfly Lycaena phlaeas |
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The Small Copper butterfly is named after the copper-orange wings with a slight green-blue tinge from hair near the body |
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It is roughly the size of the Common Blue butterfly and, like the Blue, its "Large" relative became extinct in the UK, but is being re-introduced from Continental stock |
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| Form caeruleopunctata, a variation with pale blue spots on hindwing |
Small Copper in Totteridge Fields, London |
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