Imperial Hairstreak (5/5)

Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae

Jalmenus evagoras

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Bete Bolong North, VIC (Jan, 2017)

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A male Imperial Hairstreak watches out for females from a vantage point near larval food plants.

As it sits it shuffles its hind wing up and down, possibly to draw any predator's atention to the "face" at the wrong end.

Imperial Hairstreak

"No! means No!"

Male Imperial Hairstreak