Two-spotted Line-blue
S11, profile
Two-spotted Line-blue
S2, Underside
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| Two-spotted Line-blue S11, profile | | Two-spotted Line-blue S2, Underside | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Gossamer-winged Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Two-spotted Line-blue (Nacaduba biocellata)| This Photo: | 🔍S11, Topside🔎 | Other names: | 2-spotted Line-blue or Double-spotted Line Blue | Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† & Matt Endacott for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Looks very similar to the common grass-blue & pea-blue butterflies. It is more brown with 2 distinctive spots on the rear wings. Notice the spots can be different shapes. Possibly camera angle, but will also vary depending on how stretched the wing is.
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