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Gallery

Catalog Dark Grass-blue Gallery

Adults

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Male

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Female

Upperside

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Male

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Female

Underside

Food Host

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Hamilton Creek, a typical Far North creek-line with flow towards viewer.
The stone reef acts as a dam for a series of waterholes in distance.

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One of the waterholes in above photo.
Glinus hostplants for Dark Grass-blue are growing at edge of creek and waterhole.

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Prostrate Glinus lotoides (grey coloured) and
Glinus oppositifolius (dark green coloured)
occurring at above waterhole

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Closeup of Glinus lotoides

Eggs

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Larvae

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Different colour forms of fifth instar larvae, head on left

Pupae

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Green coloured new pupae

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Green coloured new pupae

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Brown coloured old pupa

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Fly parasitoid

Newly pupated in left photo, one pupa free, the other has pupated inside a Dark Grass-blue pupa

Emergent fly in right photo

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Wasp parasitoid

Mature wasp larva newly emergent from fourth instar Dark Grass-blue larva in left photo

Newly pupated in right photo

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.