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![Hipparchia-semele-the-grayling | PTKbutterflies](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/973a2b_561b7028a0f74bfda9d835fdf0f13d98.jpg/v1/fill/w_350,h_263,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/973a2b_561b7028a0f74bfda9d835fdf0f13d98.jpg)
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This generally seems to be a coastal butterfly, with wide variation over large areas of Europe. The top two butterfly photographs on the left were taken in North-Eastern England, the pair below on the North-West coast.
They one below-right is of a Great Orme specimen, ssp. thyone, said to be generally smaller, with a more pale hindwing underside.
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The one below here, is an Italian Alpine inhabitant...
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