1 Golden Ant-blue at Mount Majura
Identification history
| Acrodipsas aurata | 21 Jan 2024 | owenh | ||
| Acrodipsas aurata | 21 Jan 2024 | JohnBundock |
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6 comments
owenh
wrote:
21 Jan 2024
First CNM sighting from this site though has previously been recorded this location (Suzi Bond, Field Guide to Butterflies of the ACT 2016, 2018).
JohnBundock
wrote:
21 Jan 2024
It may be a significant sighting but wasn't originally spotted by me.
waltraud
wrote:
21 Jan 2024
John it doesn't matter whether you spotted it originally or not; the record of the species is important! thanks for the photo and thanks to the person who spotted it. Great!
waltraud
wrote:
21 Jan 2024
thanks Owen - i can't see a distribution map but I noted that Suzi Bond mentioned in the field guide that the species has been recorded on Mts Majura / Ainslie
Location information
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- JohnBundock Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) JohnBundock Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Acrodipsas aurata Scientific name
- Golden Ant-blue Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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