Like daphne, this butterfly also has a thousand eyes in the lower part of its wings, but the upper side shines an intense turquoise blue. Surely exclaiming "hunky-dory!" is perfectly at place, here, for if you're seeing her, then you're certainly enjoying a wonderful place as she loves altitude.
In the blue, painted blue! The color of the wings of this butterfly is… wow! A really intense blue getting bright under the sunlight! In Italy, the Dorylas is almost everywhere, except on the islands, and inhabits warm flowering prairies and rocky environments, from 300 up to 2500 m altitude. The female is very different from the male, as she sports a brown coloration with orange moonlets on her hind wings, although the reverse is similar to the male, only slightly darker. This butterfly can be distinguished well from other similar Polyommatus species by the presence in both sexes of a conspicuous white border on the reverse side of the wings. The larvae feed on plants of the genus Anthyllis, flicker in mid-May and fly in June and July. Dorylas is found from northern Spain through all of Europe to western Asia.