Stencilled Hairstreak at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Jalmenus ictinus | 21 Jan 2019 | SuziBond | ||
| Unidentified | 19 Jan 2019 | JackyF |
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User's notes
Caterpillar with ants, not sure if they were attacking it or tending it? Larger and quite different from the Stencilled Hairstreak caterpillars in the same wattle, see separate sighting for same time and place.
2 comments
SuziBond
wrote:
22 Jan 2019
Hi Jacky, these still look like Stencilled Hairstreak larvae to me, and with the same attendant ants. Sometimes the caterpillars can look a bit different between the earlier (smaller) instars and the later (larger) instars.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.102473-35.328977
- Maps Federal Golf Course Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Jan 2019 09:54 AM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) JackyF Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Large shrubby wattle Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Jalmenus ictinus Scientific name
- Stencilled Hairstreak Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1014.5m Recorded at altitude
- 296 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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