Junonia villida

Meadow Argus at Majura, ACT

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Identification history

Junonia villida	8 Jan 2018	SuziBond
Junonia villida	6 Jan 2018	MatthewFrawley
Unidentified	6 Jan 2018	Christine

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User's notes

I'm thinking Aus Painted lady perhaps?

2 comments

Christine wrote:

7 Jan 2018

Ah, of course, thanks Matthew :)

MatthewFrawley wrote:

7 Jan 2018

They look so similar a lot of the time, I'm always asking myself which species it is when I'm seeing them in the field, be it flying, with wings open and wings closed. Lovely to have so many of them flying around to have that sort of problem, I think.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.174681 -35.278470
Maps Mount Ainslie Campbell Park Woodland
Places Majura, ACT

Sighting information

At least 1 Abundance
5 Jan 2018 12:00 AM Recorded on
Christine Recorded by
Collections
Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Christine Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

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
811 images trained Machine learning
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