The 11th Ant-Blue : Acrodipsas violacea
When Michael Braby’s enormous 2-volume tome Butterflies of Australia : Their Identification, Biology and Distribution was published in 2000 it included 9 species of Ant-Blues, a group of small and elusive butterflies classified in the genus Acrodipsas. In 2004 a 10th species, the Northern Ant-Blue (A. decima) was described, having been found hilltopping at Mount Burrell in the …