Blotched Dusky-blue
Erina acasta (Cox)

Common in undisturbed native vegetation areas. Caterpillars prefer to eat small, slender species of parasitic dodder-laurel Cassytha spp.

This butterfly is often placed in the all-encompassing genus Candalides but adult and immature stage morphologies, and larval hostplant preference, indicate it belongs in the more compact genus Erina.

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You can learn a lot more about this butterfly, on the research-quality website now managed by BCSA, (here)