Heteronympha penelope

Shouldered Brown at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

	Heteronympha penelope	28 Mar 2022	SuziBond
	Argynnina cyrila	27 Mar 2022	KMcCue

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Not sure of the id - sorry.

3 comments

KMcCue wrote:

29 Mar 2022

Thanks Suzi but it doesn't have the characteristic brown shoulders, the white patches were white and not orange, as in the book and it appears to have only one eyespot on the hind wing. It was a puzzle.

SuziBond wrote:

30 Mar 2022

Hi Kevin, this is a worn female Shouldered Brown. She doesn't have the brown 'shoulder' like the male, the wing patches are white because it is a worn specimen, and the hindwing eyespots look consistent to me for Shouldered Brown.

KMcCue wrote:

30 Mar 2022

That's useful, thanks.

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Location information

Coordinates 148.769439 -35.474169
Altitude 1407.3m
Maps Namadgi National Park
Places Cotter River, ACT

Sighting information

1 Abundance
26 Mar 2022 02:10 PM Recorded on
KMcCue Recorded by
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KMcCue Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects

Additional information

25mm to 50mm Animal size

Species information

Heteronympha penelope Scientific name
Shouldered Brown Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1648.4m Recorded at altitude
183 images trained Machine learning
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Australian Capital Territory

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