Long-tailed Pea-blue Lampides boeticus
Wingspan: 25 mm - 27 mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: Jan - Apr
Distribution: Found in every State & Territory in Australia.
Status Claire Cottage: uncommon
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be uncommon
Wingspan: 25 mm - 27 mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: Jan - Apr
Distribution: Found in every State & Territory in Australia.
Status Claire Cottage: uncommon
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be uncommon
Long-tailed Pea-blue Lampides boeticus
Wingspan: 25 mm - 27 mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: Sep - Apr
Distribution: Found in every State & Territory in Australia.
Status Claire Cottage: uncommon
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be uncommon
Butterfly Sightings:
Larva Sightings:
Larval Food Plants: Flower buds & flowers of native and introduced legumes in Fabaceae. Here it lays on Lotus corniculatus* (Birdsfoot Trefoil), flower buds.
Habitat where found at Claire Cottage: Rainforest edge
Thought to be breeding at Claire Cottage: Yes
As shown in photographs the sun brings out a dusting of blue on the upperside of the butterfly's wings.
They are often missing a tail or two as birds probably aim for the eye spots on the end of the wings. A butterfly can survive without a bit of wing but not without its body.
Occasionally larvae are attended by ants.
Wingspan: 25 mm - 27 mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: Sep - Apr
Distribution: Found in every State & Territory in Australia.
Status Claire Cottage: uncommon
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be uncommon
Butterfly Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE:
- Sep 2012
- Nov 2006,
- Dec 2003,
- Jan 2009, 2016,
- Feb 2012
- Mar 2016, 2023
- Apr 2013
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larva Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: None to date
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larval Food Plants: Flower buds & flowers of native and introduced legumes in Fabaceae. Here it lays on Lotus corniculatus* (Birdsfoot Trefoil), flower buds.
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: FABACEAE: possibly Cullen tenax (Emu Foot), Lotus corniculatus* (Birdsfoot Trefoil), Wisteria sinensis*, (Chinese Wisteria),
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: (as for Claire Cottage)
- ELSEWHERE: FABACEAE: Cullen patens (Scurf Pea), Lotus australis (Australian trefoil) + 30 mixed native and exotic species.
Habitat where found at Claire Cottage: Rainforest edge
Thought to be breeding at Claire Cottage: Yes
As shown in photographs the sun brings out a dusting of blue on the upperside of the butterfly's wings.
They are often missing a tail or two as birds probably aim for the eye spots on the end of the wings. A butterfly can survive without a bit of wing but not without its body.
Occasionally larvae are attended by ants.