Here’s a shot of a male Common Blue from my archives for comparison with the little male depicted in the two photographs below. You can make your own mind up as to whether they’re the same species, but note the lack of orange at the trailing edges of the fore-wings of the two lower pictures compared to those of the one in the top image. I realize that a degree of variation does occur between individuals and that general wear and tear can smudge or even partially remove the colours, but rarely to that extent. Meanwhile, I do have old photos of many species of Blues, including Silver-Studded, Adonis and even a Cranberry or two, but they’re stored away in a file on an external hard-drive that is, unfortunately, broken!