Heteronympha merope
1 Common Brown Butterfly at Cavan, NSW
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| Heteronympha merope | owenh | 7 Jan 2024 | |
| Heteronympha merope | CarbonAI | 7 Jan 2024 | |
| Heteronympha merope | JaneR | 7 Jan 2024 |
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User's notes
Mix of males and females.
The butterflies really preferred this sedge for roosting (or resting): there was just one patch around the dam. Sometimes one would flutter off, but almost immediately settle on another part
of this patch of sedge, showing no interest in other nearby sedges (Cyperus eragrostis: different architecture: Carex appressa, another different architecture), or tall herbs (Verbena incompta) or tall grasses (Phalaris mainly).
They stayed in place, wings folded, for quite some time: at least 5-10 minutes - until disturbed by a photographer without a zoom lens !
(size of animal is a guess from memory, for body length)
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.764419-35.008489
- Altitude 534.9m
- Places Cavan, NSW
Sighting information
- 17 Abundance
- 7 Jan 2024 03:22 PM Recorded on
- JaneR Recorded by
- I counted 17 butterflies resting on a small patch of a medium-tall sedge (Eleocharis acuta) at once. the sedge flower was ignored. Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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- JaneR Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr 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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