Common Brown Butterfly at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Unidentified | 19 Nov 2019 | KMcCue |
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User's notes
Beautiful large butterfly
1 comment
KerriLee
wrote:
20 Nov 2019
A male, and in excellent condition. He'll be on the lookout for newly-emerging females. Once mated, females rest in cool, shaded places and are rarely seen ... until Autumn, when they emerge to lay eggs on various native grasses.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.849558-36.729228
- Altitude 189.0m
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 17 Nov 2019 04:51 PM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
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Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Nymphs (Nymphalidae) KMcCue South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Heteronympha merope Scientific name
- Common Brown Butterfly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1726.8m Recorded at altitude
- 1229 images trained Machine learning
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