Northern brown argus  (Aricia artaxerxes)

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• Hibernate: hibernation is a winter survival strategy characteristic of some mammals in which an animal’s metabolic rate slows down and a state of deep sleep is attained. Whilst hibernating, animals survive on stored reserves of fat that they have accumulated in summer. In insects, the correct term for hibernation is ‘diapause’, a temporary pause in development and growth. Any stage of the lifecycle (eggs, larvae, pupae or adults) may enter diapause, which is typically associated with winter.
• Single-brooded: Also known as ‘univoltine’. Referring to an organism which has just one brood each year.
• Subspecies: a population usually restricted to a geographical area that differs from other populations of the same species, but not to the extent of being classified as a separate species.

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2. UKBAP (March, 2002)
   http://www.ukbap.org.uk/ukplans.aspx?ID=109
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