Green-underside Blue
''Glaucopsyche alexis'', the green-underside blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Palearctic. The butterfly flies from April to July depending on the location, lingering in warm, lush meadows with plenty of its host plant, vicia, vetch (''Vicia''). Subspecies *''G. a. alexis'' southern and central Europe and Siberia *''G. a. blachieri'' (Milliére, 1887) Carpathians *''G. a. lugens'' (Caradja, 1893) Caucasus *''G. a. melanoposmater'' Verity, 1928 Algeria and Tunisia Description from Seitz L. cyllarus Rott. (= damoetas Schiff.) (82 f). Male above light cyaneous blue with a violet sheen and narrow black border; female darker blue with the black border gradually shading off, so that it occupies nearly the whole outer half of the wings. Beneath silver-grey (male) or ashy grey (female), the forewing with 5 or 6 large rounded black spots, the hindwing with small ocelli and in its whole basal half with metallic blue-green dusting. In ab. ''dimus'' Bgstr ...
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Nikolaus Poda Von Neuhaus
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus (4 October 1723 – 29 April 1798) was an Austrian entomologist. In his branch of natural history, the short name Poda refers to him. Poda was born and died in Vienna. He was the author of ''Insecta Musei Graecensis'' (1761), the first purely entomological work to follow the binomial nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus. External linksLandes Museum
* Insecta musaei Graecensis (Pdf) at

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