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Other Common Names None I bumped into this species on the Terrace Garden in the Mount Annan Botanic Garden. It was quite fortunate, because apparently this butterfly tends to settle quite high up on trees, out of camera range. But on the terrace garden, the higher parts of some of the shrubs were within reach from the next tier up on the terrace, and that was how I was first able to get close enough to get some photos. There were at least 4 of these butterflies in a small area - they were continually competing for perches, with each other and with a Prosotas felderi that had taken a liking to a particular shrub. At first this was frustrating, as they didn't sit still long enough for me to get any decent pictures. But whenever they were disturbed, they would come back to almost the same spot, and they also seemed to be much more worried about each other than about me, so after a while I was able to get some quite nice shots of them. The following year I saw one of these butterflies in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney. I spotted it zipping around a small citrus bush, and eventually it landed. I was able to get one decent picture before inadvertently disturbing it. Sightings Mount Annan Botanical Garden - April 2005. Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney - May 2006