Grass-blue Partial Profile | Grass-blue Underside | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Gossamer-winged Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Grass-blue (Zizina otis ssp labradus) | ||||
This Photo: | Veins | ||||
Synonyms: | Zizina labradus or Zizina otis | ||||
Other name: | Common Grass-blue | ||||
Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III for confirming the id of this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: Amazing how different sun reflections can show different aspects of any species. The veins, not normally noticed, are highlighted here purely because of the unique angle of the sun light General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere There seems to be some disagreement over the binomial name with these. Our naming comes from Atlas of Living Australia, a federal government web site that publishes the names of all Australian creatures, along with sightings, etc. | |||||
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