Blue-banded Scratcher
Popplepsalta aeroides Owen and Moulds, 2016
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Male
Female
Species number (TNS):
393.
Fore wing length:
19–25 mm.
Distribution and seasonality:
From Main Range National Park in
south-east Queensland south along
the Great Dividing Range to the Bega
district in southern New South Wales.
It reaches the coast in Royal National
Park in central New South Wales.
Adults occur from October to January.
Notable localities:
Cunningham’s Gap, Barrington Tops,
Garie Beach (Simon lab), near
Wollombi (A. Hutchison), Glenbrook
(A. Greenville).
Habitat:
Populations occur in warm temperate,
sheltered open forest, often on an
easterly aspect.
Calling song and behaviour:
Fairly low-pitched, soft and rapidly
emitted, comprising a sequence of
repetitive chirps followed by a series
of alternating long and short chirps.
Males call during sunny conditions,
typically from the upper branches of
eucalypts.
Similar species:
Red Scratcher.
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