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Gallery

Catalog Blotched Dusky-blue Gallery

Adults

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Male
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Female
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Male

Food Host

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Downy or Rusty Dodder-laurel Cassytha pubescens,
a hostplant for the Blotched Dusky-blue, parasitising tea-tree in the Lower Southeast Region.

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White flowered Slender Dodder-laurel Cassytha glabella form dispar,
a hostplant for the Blotched Dusky-blue.

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.