Heteronympha merope

Common Brown Butterfly at Candelo, NSW

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Identification history

	Heteronympha merope	9 Jan 2022	HarveyPerkins
	Heteronympha merope	9 Jan 2022	KylieWaldon

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User's notes

The females were in the shady area on leaves of big trees. There were only a handful of them. All the rest were males and fluttering around the lawn and the exposed paddock of weedy flowers.

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KylieWaldon wrote:

10 Jan 2022

oh, and she is missing a bit of one wing - but she was still able to fly.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.630908 -36.745828
Places Candelo, NSW

Sighting information

50 Abundance
2 Jan 2022 09:25 AM Recorded on
KylieWaldon Recorded by
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KylieWaldon South Coast NatureMapr Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects

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50mm or larger Animal size
Mixed Gender

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
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