11 Moonlight Jewel at Whitlam, ACT
Identification history
| Hypochrysops delicia | 20 Nov 2024 | owenh | ||
| Hypochrysops delicia | 20 Nov 2024 | SteveBorkowskis | ||
| Unverified | 20 Nov 2024 | SteveBorkowskis |
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Significant sighting
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SteveBorkowskis
wrote:
21 Nov 2024
Thanks everyone, it was a chance find, occasionally you get lucky and cross paths with something amazing. There is an old pedestrian/stock underpass beneath William Hovel Drive and it was hanging around the entrance, perhaps looking for moisture or the significantly cooler temperature in the tunnel?
Location information
- Places Whitlam, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
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Significant SteveBorkowskis Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Hypochrysops delicia Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Hypochrysops delicia Scientific name
- Moonlight Jewel Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 844.64m Recorded at altitude
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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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