Long-tailed Pea-blue at Aranda, ACT
Identification history
| Lampides boeticus | 17 Jan 2018 | SuziBond | ||
| Candalides heathi | 16 Jan 2018 | KMcCue |
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2 comments
SuziBond
wrote:
17 Jan 2018
Yes, she is laying an egg in the main image. Rayed Blues are more of a high-country species in the ACT, and their preferred larval food plants are different to what the Long-tailed Pea-blue uses.
KMcCue
wrote:
18 Jan 2018
Thanks Suzi
Could only see one tail so thought it wasn't one - she must have lost the other one
Could only see one tail so thought it wasn't one - she must have lost the other one
Location information
- Coordinates 149.081349-35.258185
- Places Aranda, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 24 Oct 2016 04:51 AM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae)
Additional information
- Hardenbergia Associated plant
Species information
- Lampides boeticus Scientific name
- Long-tailed Pea-blue Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1075.41m Recorded at altitude
- 155 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
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