Notes

This is another species that I first saw thanks to Bob Miller, who found three pupae at the base of a tree close to Tolga, near Atherton. All three hatched to produce males, two of which I photographed before releasing. It’s a shame none of them was a female.

So far I’ve only managed to get one photo of a wild adult, which was sitting high up on the hilltop at Spring Mountain – too high for me to get a good shot. 

Links

• The Complete Field Guide to Australian Butterflies (2nd edition) by Michael F. Braby
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Bob’s Butterflies
• South Australian Butterflies & Moths
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Butterflies and Other Invertebrates
• Wikipedia
• iNaturalist
• Museums Victoria
• New and interesting records of Ogyris zosine (Hewitson, [1853]) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from inland Western Australia by Michael F Braby and F Douglas
• Notes on the biology of ‘Ogyris zosine‘ (Hewitson, 1853) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae), including the first record of the purple female form from the Northern Territory, Australia by R Weir, CE Meyer and SS Brown