Jalmenus ictinus
2 Stencilled Hairstreak at Mount Majura
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| Jalmenus ictinus | SuziBond | 3 Mar 2024 | |
| Jalmenus ictinus | CarbonAI | 3 Mar 2024 | |
| Jalmenus ictinus | JenniM | 3 Mar 2024 |
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User's notes
Location up the walking track from Antill St entrance to nature park. Adults flying around the top of the wattle, ants all over the tree defending it and tending to the larvae, and pupae in various stages of maturity.
3 comments
4 Mar 2024
Brilliant. I like how the pupa is fastened onto the branch with a string of silk.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.170537-35.241150
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 18 Feb 2024 01:55 PM Recorded on
- JenniM Recorded by
- Green wattle Associated plant
- meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus) tending the larva Associated animal
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
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- JenniM Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Jalmenus ictinus Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
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
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