Heteronympha merope

Common Brown Butterfly at Goulburn, NSW

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Identification history

Heteronympha merope	1 Jan 2022	MatthewFrawley
Heteronympha merope	29 Dec 2021	Amata
Unidentified	24 Dec 2021	Rixon

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There is a very large amount of them in this reserve at the moment. Added additional photos, not sure if there are two different types of butterflies pictured?

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Amata wrote:

29 Dec 2021

@Rixon I think these photos show the same species of Butterfly. The Larger ones with more black on their wings are females, while the smaller ones with little black at all are males.

Rixon wrote:

1 Jan 2022

@Birdy Great, thank you!

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Location information

Coordinates 149.689658 -34.758382
Maps West Goulburn Bushland Reserve Goulburn Mulwaree Council
Places Goulburn, NSW

Sighting information

40 Abundance
26 Dec 2021 02:32 PM Recorded on
Rixon Recorded by
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Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Rixon

Additional information

25mm to 50mm Animal size

Species information

Heteronympha merope Scientific name
Common Brown Butterfly Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1465.4m Recorded at altitude
1181 images trained Machine learning
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Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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