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Scalloped Grass Yellow Butterfly

Eurema alitha

Description:

The larvae of this species feed on the native legume Glycine tabacina, which is often found twining amongst grasses. Mature larvae 28 mm long, body is bluish-green to bluish-grey with some purple spots; head greenish yellow. Adult fore wing is yellow with a broad brownish black margin, hind wing is yellow with black or dark brown on the terminal edge, margin weakly scalloped.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
Scalloped Grass Yellow
Eurema alitha Butterflies of Australia - Eurema alitha


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5 Comments

MacChristiansen
MacChristiansen 10 years ago

Added information

MacChristiansen
MacChristiansen 11 years ago

Added photo

MacChristiansen
MacChristiansen 11 years ago

Addd ID, Thanks again Bayucca

MacChristiansen
MacChristiansen 11 years ago

Looks good Bayucca, I'll go with that, thanks

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Please, verify! One of my 5 seconds ID ;-)... Might be wrong, but looks actually not bad...

MacChristiansen
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MacChristiansen

New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Apr 15, 2013
Submitted on Apr 15, 2013

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