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Dispar Skipper -female (underside)

Dispar compacta

Description:

This spotting is of the underside of a female Dispar Skipper - a pale salmon pink colour with white markings on both wings, when at rest.

Habitat:

Spotted in a nature reseerve

Notes:

The upper side is very much like that of a male skipper, without a grey streak on the fore wings as in this spooting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/166... The upper side is very dark in sharp contrast with the underside. Family: Hesperiidae

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Leuba Ridgway
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Leuba Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Feb 20, 2014
Submitted on Feb 20, 2014

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