{"id":29315,"date":"2014-11-23T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/animalia\/arthropoda\/insecta\/lepidoptera\/lycaenidae\/polyommatus\/polyommatus-icarus\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:14:07","slug":"polyommatus-icarus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/parasites\/animalia\/arthropoda\/insecta\/lepidoptera\/ditrysia\/apoditrysia\/macrolepidoptera\/rhopalocera\/lycaenidae\/polyommatinae\/polyommatini\/polyommatus\/polyommatus-icarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyommatus icarus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polyommatus icarus<\/em> (Rottemburg, 1775)<\/h1>\n

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common blue<\/h2>\n

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on Trifolium<\/em>, etc.<\/h2>\n

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\"Polyommatus
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Greece, Lefkas, Katouna, 14.v.2019 \u00a9 Laurens van der Linde<\/p>\n

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mine<\/h3>\n

Young larvae of the common blue bite a hole in the lower epidermis and from there eat as much parenchymatous tissue as they can reach with their head and thorax (Emmet ao, 1996a).<\/p>\n

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host plants<\/h3>\n

Fabaceae, oligophagous<\/p>\n

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Astragalus<\/a>; Genista<\/a> tinctoria; Lathyrus<\/a>; Lotus<\/a> corniculatus, lancerottensis, pedunculatus; Medicago<\/a> falcata, lupulina, minima, polymorpha, sativa, truncatula; Onobrychis<\/a> caput-galli; Ononis<\/a> spinosa & subsp. procurrens; Oxytropis<\/a> campestris; Trifolium<\/a> arvense, dubium, montanum, repens; Vicia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rarely alao Helianthemum<\/a><\/em> (Pyrgus).<\/p>\n


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phenology<\/h3>\n

Larvae in the second half of April, sometimes a second generation in July (Bink, 1992a).<\/p>\n

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BENELUX<\/h3>\n

BE recorded (Phegea, 2009).<\/p>\n

NE recorded (Kuchlein & de Vos, 1999a; Microlepidoptera.nl, 2009).<\/p>\n

LUX recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2009).<\/p>\n

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distribution within Europe<\/h3>\n

Entire Europe (Fauna Europaea, 2009).<\/p>\n

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ei, larva, pupa<\/h3>\n

see Carter & Hargreaves, Lepiforum, Obreg\u00f3n-Romero & Gil-T, Pyrgus.<\/p>\n


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references<\/h3>\n

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Acosta Fern\u00e1ndez (2007a), Aistleitner & Aistleitner (1996a), Baquero, Moraza, Ari\u00f1o & Jordana (2011a), Bink (1992a), Bury & Savchuk (2015a), Carter & Hargreaves, 1987a), Dupont, Luquet, Demerges & Drouet (2013a), Emmet ao (1996a), Kemal, K\u0131z\u0131lda\u011f & Ko\u00e7ak (2020a), K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 (2014a), Kuchlein & de Vos (1999a), Lafranchis (2020b), Lepiforum<\/a> (2021), Obreg\u00f3n-Romero & Gil-T (2011a), Obreg\u00f3n, Shaw, Fern\u00e1ndez-Haeger & Jordano (2015b), pyrgus.de<\/a> (2023), Robbins (1991a), Ruiz (2020a), Vegliante & Zilli (2007a), Wiemers (1995a), Wirooks & Theissen (1999a).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775) common blue on Trifolium, etc. Greece, Lefkas, Katouna, 14.v.2019 \u00a9 Laurens van der Linde mine Young larvae of the common blue bite a hole in the lower epidermis and from there eat as much parenchymatous tissue as they can reach with their head and thorax (Emmet ao, 1996a). host plants Fabaceae, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29313,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"parasite-species.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-parasite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984540,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29315\/revisions\/984540"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}