Common Brown Butterfly at Watson, ACT
Identification history
| Heteronympha merope | 3 Dec 2023 | owenh | ||
| Unidentified | 3 Dec 2023 | Louisab |
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3 comments
Louisab
wrote:
3 Dec 2023
Are you sure this is a common brown? The large yellow areas on the top of the wings seemed very different to the normal common brown.
owenh
wrote:
3 Dec 2023
Yes, this is a female. The species is dimorphic and the forewing patterns differ strongly between male and female genders. Please refer the Common Brown species page: Heteronympha merope
Location information
- Coordinates 149.176361-35.242533
- Altitude 748.2m
- Places Watson, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 3 Dec 2023 08:31 AM Recorded on
- Louisab Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Louisab Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- False Pollinator Insect on Flower
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
- External link More information
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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