Meleageria daphnis (Schifermueller, 1775) (= Polyommatus daphnis; = Polyommatus meleager (Esper, 1779)) -Meleager's Blue.

Range: S Europe, Anterior Asia, Iran, S Ural.

ssp.: daphnis (Schifermueller, 1775); range: Europe.

wings closed.

A road through alternating meadows and woods on a flat top (loc. "yaila") of the coastal Crimean mountains above the halfway between Mukhovatka and Foros, Crimea, Ukraine. 4th July 1991. O. Kosterin.