Long-tailed Pea-blue at Aranda, ACT
Identification history
| Lampides boeticus | 26 Oct 2022 | owenh | ||
| Lampides boeticus | 26 Oct 2022 | KMcCue |
Identify this sighting
Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.
User's notes
It seemed interested in a nearby dead Cabbage White, alerted me to the dead moth
3 comments
trevorpreston
wrote:
27 Oct 2022
Is it just me, or is there more Long-tailed Pea-blues around this year than usual? I've been seeing them in many places where I've never noticed them before.
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
27 Oct 2022
Seems to be a lot of sightings on CNM at the moment to support there being good numbers and I even saw my first one ever so surely that's an indicator.
owenh
wrote:
27 Oct 2022
Certainly having a bumper season. Suzi Bond, in the ACT butterfly field guide, notes their status as 'Common, widespread migrant, possibly also resident' also 'As with other migrants, numbers can fluctuate from year to year' which explains it.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.081725-35.257739
- Altitude 633.0m
- Places Aranda, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 26 Oct 2022 02:03 PM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
-
Collections
Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) KMcCue Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Lampides boeticus Scientific name
- Long-tailed Pea-blue Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1075.41m Recorded at altitude
- 158 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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
- Description
- Additional attributes
