Violet Copper - Lycaena helle


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The violet copper is found, increasingly scarcely, in flowery meadows and marshy land, often in mountainous regions in central Europe. The male is easily identified by its small size and violet suffusion. The female is more like other female coppers, but both can be identified by the neat row of white chevrons inside an equally neat orange submarginal band on the underside of the hindwing.