Grass-blue: Adult, profile, Wings Up

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:

🔍Adult, profile, Wings Up🔎

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

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.

This species is classed as

C (Common)

on the South Australian Butterflies & Moths website

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