Austrolestes leda

4 Wandering Ringtail at Hackett, ACT

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Identification history

	Austrolestes leda	18 Jul 2020	HarveyPerkins
	Austrolestes leda	17 Jul 2020	rawshorty

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Significant sighting

HarveyPerkins noted:

18 Jul 2020

A rare mid-winter record

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HarveyPerkins wrote:

18 Jul 2020

A great find Shorty - there are more records of damselflies in mid-winter this year than I'd ever have expected. You prompted me to go out and have a look and I found a couple of males at a tiny swamp on the northern flanks of Black Mountain. Written up at either http://hdpphd.blogspot.com/2020/07/winter-damselflies-there-are-lot-of.html or https://www.facebook.com/HarveyPerkinsACT

rawshorty wrote:

19 Jul 2020

Thanks Harvey, i did think it odd at this time of Year. Thanks for the links as i thought mine was a very oddly bright female, now i know better.

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1 Abundance
17 Jul 2020 12:49 PM Recorded on
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Significant sightings Insects Damselflies (Zygoptera) Dragonflies & Damselflies (Odonata) rawshorty

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25mm to 50mm Animal size

Species information

Austrolestes leda Scientific name
Wandering Ringtail Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1232.9m Recorded at altitude
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