A freshly emerged male Chalkhill Blue is a particularly beautiful insect, with shimmering silvery blue wings, and long hair-like scales adorning the body, giving it a distinctly furry appearance. The wings are highly reflective so the butterfly appears to be almost silver when seen in bright sunshine.

The female can be confused with the female Adonis Blue L. bellargus, but the upperside of the latter has a deeper chocolate ground colour. It also has blue edging to the black sub-marginal spots on the upperside, as compared to whitish edging in coridon. The emergence of the 2nd brood of bellargus overlaps slightly with coridon during August, and both species often share the same habitats.

The Chalkhill Blue is distributed across much of Europe, but absent from northern Britain, Ireland, northern Scandinavia, Portugal, southern Spain and most of the Mediterranean islands. It's range extends into western Asia as far as the Ural mountains.

In Europe there are several species which closely resemble both sexes of the Chalkhill Blue, and it is essential to consult a well illustrated field guide to differentiate between them.

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