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Lycaena dispar

Large Copper

Lycaena dispar

Haworth, 1802

 

I found this butterfly, while it was resting in the grass in the afternoon. I took this photograph hand-held with my Sigma 105.0 mm. I used a delicate ring flash mounted on my lens to get rid of shadows.

 

The Large Copper is a butterfly listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as NEAR THREATENED:

 

www.iucnredlist.org/details/12433/0

 

Identified by Andrzej Staśkowiak:

www.flickr.com/photos/26570226@N07/

 

South-eastern Poland.

 

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Uploaded on October 20, 2014
Taken on August 22, 2014