1 Chequered Copper at O'Connor, ACT
Identification history
| Lucia limbaria | 15 Apr 2023 | owenh | ||
| Unidentified | 15 Apr 2023 | ConBoekel |
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I assume it was laying eggs. It was going from plant to plant and curling the tip down and under the plants. Absent from DSW over the last two years and breeding there this year is quite a change in status.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.106805-35.259932
- Altitude 611.6m
- Maps Dryandra St Woodland
- Places O'Connor, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Feb 2023 10:52 AM Recorded on
- ConBoekel Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) ConBoekel Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Egg laying Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Lucia limbaria Scientific name
- Chequered Copper Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1376m Recorded at altitude
- 285 images trained Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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