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''Aricia cramera'', the southern brown argus, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is a butterfly of Southern Europe and North Africa and can be found from Morocco and Tunisia up to Spain and Portugal, on Mediterranean islands including Menorca and on the 
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...
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The wingspan ranges to up to 30 mm. The butterfly flies from May to September depending on the location.
The larvae feed on '' Erodium'', '' Helianthemum'' and ''Geranium
''Geranium'' is a genus of 422 species of annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as geraniums or cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in ...
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Description from Seitz
In specimens astrarche'' ">Aricia_agestis.html" ;"title="of ''Aricia agestis">astrarche'' from the Canaries the red macular band of the upperside is occasionally quite uncommonly broad and of even width, so that it forms a regular band, only transected by the black veins; this is ab. ''cramera'' Eschsch. (= ''canariensis'' Black.) (80 a). I also caught very extreme specimens of this form on the slopes of the Aures Mts. in Algeria, although only singly; on the other hand I met on the Canaries with specimens of ''astrarche'' which certainly did not belong to ''cramera'', but rather to ''calida''.Adalbert Seitz in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'', 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)See also
*List of butterflies of Menorca {{short description, None
Menorca is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain, with a population of approximately 88,000. It is located 39°47' to 40°00'N, 3°52' to 4°24'E. There is good data on the butterflies of Menorca altho ...
References
Aricia (butterfly) Butterflies of Europe {{Polyommatini-stub