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Dispar compacta
About 16mm long, wingspan about 30mm.
Resting on 'currant bush' in local nature reserve.
Finally I got both sides even though light was very poor. Had to review other skippers - very tricky with very subtle pattern variations.
family: HESPERIIDAE
subfamily: TRAPEZITINAE
Southeastern Australia particularly NSW and Victoria near the coast.
http://spatial.ala.org.au/?q=lsid:%22urn...
http://www.ces.csiro.au/aicn/name_c/a_26...
Spotted on Feb 3, 2014
Submitted on Feb 4, 2014
1 Comment
Nice!