Short-tailed Line-blue Prosotas felderi
Wingspan: 19mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: Dec - Feb
Distribution: East Australian coast from Miriam Vale, QLD south to Wollongong, NSW
Status Claire Cottage: uncommon
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be uncommon
NOTE: Similar species: Prosotas dubiosa, Prosotas nora (care only found north of Mackay, QLD.), Nacaduba biocellata.
Wingspan: 19mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: Dec - Feb
Distribution: East Australian coast from Miriam Vale, QLD south to Wollongong, NSW
Status Claire Cottage: uncommon
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be uncommon
NOTE: Similar species: Prosotas dubiosa, Prosotas nora (care only found north of Mackay, QLD.), Nacaduba biocellata.
Short-tailed Line-blue Prosotas felderi
Wingspan: 19mm
Sighted Claire Cottage: Dec - Feb
Distribution: East Australian coast from Miriam Vale, QLD south to Wollongong, NSW
Status Claire Cottage: uncommon
Status Dorrigo Plateau: thought to be uncommon
NOTE: Similar species: Prosotas dubiosa, Prosotas nora (care only found north of Mackay, QLD.), Nacaduba biocellata.
Butterfly Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: Dec 2023, Jan 2019, Feb 2019,
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larva Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: None to date
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: None to date
Larval Food Plants:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: FABACEAE: Acacia melanoxylon. SAPINDACEAE: Alectryon coriaceus, Cupaniopsis anacardioides,
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: (as for Claire Cottage)
- ELSEWHERE: (as for Claire Cottage plus) FABACEAE: Acacia floribunda, A. granitica, A. leiocalyx, A. penninervis, A. podalyriifolia, A, sophorae PROTEACEAE: Macadamia integrifolia, MIMOSACEAE: *Albizia lebbeck, SAPINDACEAE: *Litchi chinensis,
Thought to be breeding at Claire Cottage: Yes
Flight habit: Throughout the day.
First warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: Jan 2019
Last warm season sighting - Claire Cottage: Feb 2019
Interesting Observations
We first found the Short-tailed Line-blue at Claire Cottage on 27th January 2019 and were very excited to realise there were hundreds of them flying around our many Acacia melanoxylon trees and other trees/shrubs close by. To date we have not found either eggs or larva. Our second sighting of large numbers of these butterflies was on 28th Dec 2023.