Heteronympha merope
17 Common Brown Butterfly at Acton, ACT
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| Heteronympha merope | SuziBond | 3 Feb 2022 | |
| Unverified | HelenCross | 23 Jan 2022 |
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Significant sighting
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Leucistic or faded?
6 comments
23 Jan 2022
Wow, that's very interesting. Most of the male Common Browns I'm seeing are faded and tattered, but none look like that.
3 Feb 2022
Incredible photo Helen. I passed this onto Ted Edwards for more information on what is going on here, and he has the following comments for you:
WOW. Wonderful H. merope male aberration. Complete failure of the melanin pigment pathway. I have never seen anything like it before. There are pictures of such things in Europe but none before this in Oz.
WOW. Wonderful H. merope male aberration. Complete failure of the melanin pigment pathway. I have never seen anything like it before. There are pictures of such things in Europe but none before this in Oz.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.109043-35.271688
- Altitude 629.0m
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 23 Jan 2022 09:08 AM Recorded on
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- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Collections
- Colour mutations in wildlife HelenCross NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Significant Featured Heteronympha merope Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
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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