Butterfly id's required please.

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Two butterflies from our French holiday, these were both taken in the Dordogne region, and id's would be good please.

1. Possibly one of the Ringlets?

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2. Possibly a Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)

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Thanks.
 
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I'm not 100% sure but the first one looks like a meadow brown, but someone here will be better at names than me.

Ben.
 
Thanks Guys, but the reason I thought that it isn't a meadow brown is that the descriptions show the mb with just one eyespot on the forewing, this one has two clear ones and smaller ones.
 
david357 said:
Thanks Guys, but the reason I thought that it isn't a meadow brown is that the descriptions show the mb with just one eyespot on the forewing, this one has two clear ones and smaller ones.
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same thoughts as me...looked when you first posted, but could not find anything in my books of butterflies?...mark
 
Thanks for your input, Mark.

If it helps, I saw the butterfly in the Dordogne area, and to try to identify it I used the Butterflies of France website, and I thought that the ringlets looked similar - http://www.butterfliesoffrance.com

I may be wrong, I usually am!
 
jerry12953 said:
No1 is difficult. The ringlets seem to merge into the browns, which merge into the heaths, then there are subspecies, and the males can be different to the females.........

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That's what I thought, thanks Jerry. Could still be a Meadow Brown?
 
That's why I queried the meadow brown in the first place, I also think that the colours are a bit warm for a Grayling. Seems to be a mixture of some off the Butterflies of France site!

btw Jeremy, you have some nice images on the Wild Wales site.
 
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