A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Pseudalmenus chlorinda zephyrus
About 25mm body length. Pattern in brown and yellow with some tints of other colours and 2 obvious red tufts near the tails
Resting for a brief moment on sword grass in a local nature reserve.
Also called Chlorinda Hairstreak
Leuba found the same species on the same day with underwings revealed... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/118...
The larvae with protective ants can be seen here http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/993...
family: LYCAENIDAE
subfamily: THECLINAE
tribe: Zesiusini
Distribution... http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
5 Comments
That's great Martin thanks. I'll need to encourage L for the other side now.
Well since you only get one shot, its a pretty good one. Its a species that is seldom seen. It is the first butterfly on an Australian postage stamp. http://www.canstockphoto.com/postage-sta...
Pretty with this tail tufts
Thanks Luis.
Great find Mark!