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Gallery

Catalog Lithochroa Hairstreak Gallery

Adults

This is the only butterfly endemic to South Australia.
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Photography by R. Grund

Male

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Photography by R. Grund
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Famales

Eggs

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Egg batch
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Closeup of eggs

Larval Attendant Ant

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Photography by D. Lohman
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Photography by D. Lohman

Immature larva with attendant meat-ant Iridomyrmex purpureus. Ant is 8 mm long.

Mature larva with the large and ferocious attendant
meat-ants Iridomyrmex purpureus

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Photography by D. Lohman
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Mature larva with attendant meat-ants Iridomyrmex viridiaeneus

Mature larva with attendant meat-ants Iridomyrmex sp

Pupae

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A mature larva cannibalising a prepupa
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Pupa

All photography by R. Fisher unless stated otherwise.