Alpine Grizzled Skipper
Pyrgus andromedae
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This Pyrgus species is superficially very similar
to all the rest. It can be identified by having three horizontally
extended spots in the bases of spaces 1 and 2 on the upperside of the
forewing (present in the first picture here, but not the second, which
only has two) and a characteristic streak and spot on the underside of
the hindwing in s1 (visible in both the underside pictures).
The butterfly is found quite commonly in the high Alps.