Meadow Argus at Griffith, ACT
Identification history
| Junonia villida | 14 Feb 2022 | SuziBond | ||
| Junonia villida | 13 Feb 2022 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Hesperiidae (family) | 13 Feb 2022 | ibaird | ||
| Unidentified | 13 Feb 2022 | SRoss |
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2 comments
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
13 Feb 2022
Upperwing markings look like a Meadow Argus to me - a very crumpled and odd looking one.
SRoss
wrote:
14 Feb 2022
Thanks, that's what I thought after checking Suzi Bond's book, but I'm an absolute amateur. And yes about the 'crumpled and odd' - it barely moved even though I was very close for a while. Maybe it was near the end of its life.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.128889-35.325556
- Altitude 638.0m
- Maps Bass Gardens Park, Griffith
- Places Griffith, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 13 Feb 2022 10:50 AM Recorded on
- SRoss Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Nymphs (Nymphalidae)
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Junonia villida Scientific name
- Meadow Argus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1642.1m Recorded at altitude
- 744 images trained Machine learning
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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