12 Violet Copper Butterfly at suppressed
Identification history
| Paralucia crosbyi | 17 Aug 2021 | SuziBond | ||
| Paralucia crosbyi | 17 Aug 2021 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Zizina otis | 16 Aug 2021 | SWishart |
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Significant sighting
User's notes
Sunning itself on a rock.
9 comments
SuziBond
wrote:
16 Aug 2021
Great that you managed to snap a photo, did you get any other images at all of it?
SWishart
wrote:
16 Aug 2021
I've just put up two more photos but the rest are variations on those three positions which are more a reflection of the wings spreading a little. It was a lovely sunny day and it was enjoying the warmth but I took that one step too close.
SWishart
wrote:
17 Aug 2021
Ta. I'm pretty chuffed and thankful that after some hesitation I ended up posting my 'common grass blue' butterfly
Christine
wrote:
6 Jun 2024
Fantastic Susan! This is now described as a New species of butterfly! Congratulations on your amazing find!
And well done Canberra Nature Map on providing the platform on which this amazing discovery could be recorded and, well, discovered!
YAY!
And there are now 159 sightings of this butterfly on CNM in less than three years since it was discovered by Susan. Wow!
And well done Canberra Nature Map on providing the platform on which this amazing discovery could be recorded and, well, discovered!
YAY!
And there are now 159 sightings of this butterfly on CNM in less than three years since it was discovered by Susan. Wow!
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- SWishart Recorded by
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Collections
Significant Featured Insects Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) SWishart Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Paralucia crosbyi Scientific name
- Violet Copper Butterfly Common name
- Highly Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 331 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Paralucia spinifera Bathurst Purple Copper Butterfly
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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