15 Violet Copper Butterfly at suppressed
Identification history
| Paralucia crosbyi | 24 Aug 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Paralucia crosbyi | 24 Aug 2025 | DPRees125 |
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User's notes
Nice to see them again at a spot I've found them in previous seasons. Egg laying observed, image of eggs shown here. plus males zooming about when the sun was out.
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DPRees125
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24 Aug 2025
Video of one of the females loaded onto Flickr - https://flic.kr/p/2rpifhw
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- DPRees125 Recorded by
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DPRees125 NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Paralucia crosbyi Featured ACT Most Wanted! NSW Government Priority Species Blues & Coppers (Lycaenidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
Additional information
- Bursaria spinosa Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Paralucia crosbyi Scientific name
- Violet Copper Butterfly Common name
- Highly Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1140m Recorded at altitude
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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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