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Service Station window in Franz on wet but mild day

Twenty year old pinned specimen on Service Station wall in Fox Glacier! Collected closeby

At light in town on damp mild calm evening

On shop wall by day and vibrating wings when found! Flew off after posing for photo!

On towns wall

On wall in FranzJosef

Two males on building walls on damp day after rainy night! Wonderful Franz Josef

Active by day on river terrace in Raoulia cushonfield

Many on Otira Hotel wall

Otira Hotel lights

Otira Hotel lights

Abundant over a cushion form of Mat Pohuehue on gravel shore of Lake Lyndon 840m on sunny warm day

Type Locality is Jacks Pass above Hanmer: abundant males here in Red Tussock Wetland just west if Porters Pass at 850m flying in sunshine; female short winged and flightless

Many at 420m on roadside yarrow flowers on slopes of Mt Herbert

Several on yarrow flowers at Hurunui Mouth

On yarrow feasting on insects on sunny day

probably this described Boulder Copper from Awatere Valley - Molesworth, Marlborough by Mat pohuehue on river terrace on sunny day at 750m

Active in open grasslands where exotic clovers are larval hostplant; here town road verges

Dead on main road through Amberley

Endemic to Banks Peninsula; diurnal Autumn emergence: locally abundant males and probably short-winged flightless females: Summit snow Tussock grassland of low alpine Banks Peninsula 750-800m

Common and active in open grasslands adjacent to Lake Forsyth and Birdlings Flat on Kaitorete Spit on sunny day

Several near Birdlings Flat over Scrambling pohuehue and taking nectar from adjacent yarrow flowers on sunny calm morning

On shop window by day

On town wall