Lang's Short-tailed Blue butterflies are small, fast-flying insects recognized by the intricate zebra-like brown and white striping on their underwings. Males display bright violet-blue uppersides, while females are largely brown with blue scaling near the wing bases, and both sexes carry a delicate pair of short hindwing tails beside two dark, orange-rimmed eyespots. Resident across Africa and the Mediterranean, this species regularly migrates northward into central Europe during warm summers, where caterpillars feed on legume and plumbago blossoms while attended by ants.
