4 Yellow-spotted Blue at Mittagong, NSW
Identification history
| Candalides xanthospilos | 23 Jan 2023 | owenh | ||
| Candalides xanthospilos | 23 Jan 2023 | Aussiegall |
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User's notes
Sorry, this is the only position it held its wings in and didn't open them, even though I stood there for a while. I am guessing the ID
2 comments
owenh
wrote:
23 Jan 2023
Your id is spot on and photo shows underside of the species very nicely. Well done!
Location information
- Coordinates 150.412211-34.448458
- Maps Mittagong Wingecarribee Local Government Area
- Places Mittagong, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Jan 2023 11:38 AM Recorded on
- Aussiegall Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Aussiegall Southern Highlands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Bracken Fern Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Candalides xanthospilos Scientific name
- Yellow-spotted Blue Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 345.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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
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