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Gallery

Catalog Dark-purple Azure Gallery

Adults

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Males

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Females

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Male on the left, female on the right

Food Host

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Muellerina eucalyptoides (green) and Amyema pendula (orange-green) parasitising Eucalyptus baxteri in the Lower Southeast Region

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Closeup of Muellerina eucalyptoides

Green flowering Muellerina eucalyptoides parasitising Eucalyptus

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.