Heteronympha merope

Common Brown Butterfly at Undefined Area

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Identification history

Heteronympha merope	5 Dec 2023	owenh
Charaxes sempronius	5 Dec 2023	CarbonAI
Heteronympha merope	5 Dec 2023	MichaelMulvaney

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Butterfly seen to fleetingly land on flower

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owenh wrote:

5 Dec 2023

Did you mean Allocasuarina verticillata Michael?

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

5 Dec 2023

No I was able to photograph it on teh allocasuarina but recorded as a pollinator because it briefly landed on a clump of Cassinia longifolia - thanks for the ID

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Sighting information

16 - 100 Abundance
5 Dec 2023 10:33 AM Recorded on
MichaelMulvaney Recorded by
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MichaelMulvaney Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects

Additional information

Cassinia longifolia Associated plant
25mm to 50mm Animal size
Resting Insect behaviour 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
1298 images trained Machine learning
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Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

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South Australia

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