mazarine blue

The female Mazarine blue is a brown color.

Polyommatus semiargus, the Mazarine blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

The male Mazarine blue's wings are a deep blue color and are slightly larger in diameter than the female's wings.

With mazarine blue underglazing the decoration is typically fairly simple, using outline extensively and broad shading.

Recently, the Mazarine blue's numbers have been declining in European range (particularly Scandinavia) and the reason currently remains unclear.

A deep blue-purple color has been called "mazarine blue" in commemoration of Cardinal Mazarin since the eighteenth century.

Under side: Breast, abdomen, and legs shining mazarine blue, inclining to green; on the former is a small red spot, close to the shoulders of the superior wings.

In 2009, UNESCO was researching a possible British reintroduction of the Mazarine blue to Britain.

The Mazarine blue's population is distributed throughout continental Europe, even reaching into the Arctic Circle, Asia, the Middle East, and Morocco.

Wings mazarine blue; the anterior ones having a white band crossing them from the middle of the anterior edges to the lower corners; the posterior edged with a white border, intersected by the blue tendons of the wings.