Common Brown Butterfly at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
Identification history
| Heteronympha merope | 18 Jan 2022 | SuziBond | ||
| Heteronympha merope | 18 Jan 2022 | SWishart |
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User's notes
Two males were chasing her but when they started fighting she just went and perched on the path a few metres away. They appeared to have totally forgotten about her, too concerned with territory. I only noticed a few other females in the area - still mostly males.
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.975198-35.772392
- Altitude 1115.7m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Rendezvous Creek, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 4 Jan 2022 11:26 AM Recorded on
- SWishart Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Nymphs (Nymphalidae) SWishart Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 50mm or larger Animal size
- Female 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
- 1229 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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