Spotted Brown at Cook, ACT
Identification history
| Heteronympha paradelpha | 25 Mar 2021 | SuziBond | ||
| Heteronympha paradelpha | 22 Mar 2021 | drakes |
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User's notes
Cook, suburban garden. Same location as 4373016, and same behaviour of landing in lawn grass rather than shrubs or flowers (which were available). Greyish hindwing underside of 4373016 not evident in this individual: female (4373016) and male?
2 comments
SuziBond
wrote:
25 Mar 2021
This looks like a female to me, and the behaviour of landing in the grass also sounds like a female. Have you seen any egg-laying in your yard? This species breeds on soft grasses.
drakes
wrote:
25 Mar 2021
Both definitely landed in the green lawn grass. My photography efforts would have disturbed egg-laying. :-( What marks this one as a female?
Location information
- Places Cook, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- drakes Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Nymphs (Nymphalidae) drakes Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Lawn grass (green) Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Heteronympha paradelpha Scientific name
- Spotted Brown Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1211.4m Recorded at altitude
- 119 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
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