Heteronympha merope

Common Brown Butterfly at Isaacs Ridge

Heteronympha merope at Isaacs Ridge - 15 Mar 2016

Heteronympha merope at Isaacs Ridge - 15 Mar 2016

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Identification history

	Heteronympha merope	21 Apr 2016	SuziBond
	Heteronympha merope	20 Mar 2016	KimPullen
	Unidentified	16 Mar 2016	Mike

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User's notes

Spot the spider. It was long, silvery and shy so I couldn't get a photo.

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KimPullen wrote:

21 Mar 2016

The spider appears to be a Golden Orb Weaver of the genus Nephila.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.132500 -35.388333
Altitude 661.0m
Maps Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby
Places Jerrabomberra, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
15 Mar 2016 08:55 AM Recorded on
Mike Recorded by
Collections
Insects Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Mike Canberra & Southern Tablelands 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
1238 images trained Machine learning
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