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Candalides xanthospilos

Synonyms: Candalides hubneri; Erina pulchella; Polyommatus hubnerii; Rusticus xanthospilos

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-spot blue (Candalides xanthospilos) is a species of butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in along the eastern coast of Australia, including Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The wingspan is about 25 mm. Adults are brown. Both sexes have a large yellow patch in the centre of each forewing. The underside is white with a row of black dots along the wing margins, two dots under the centre of each forewing and three dots under each hindwing.
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Prey / Diet

Pimelea ligustrina[1]
Pimelea linifolia collina[2]
Pimelea stricta[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0