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Common Brown Butterfly

Heteronympha merope

Spotting Image 1

Description:

Common brown butterfly. Female.

Habitat:

Mixed dry sclerophyll and native grasses.

1 Species ID Suggestions

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MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago
Klug's Xenica
Geitoneura klugii Australian Butterflies Photographed have photos of Hesperiidae, Papiliondae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae species of butterflies


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MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

Please consider this may be Klug's Xenica, a slightly smaller but still common 'brown' butterfly. The chevrons on the hind wing are not found in Heteronympha. H. merope will have no pigmentation along the fw discal cell vein. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/734...

staccyh
staccyh 10 years ago

Nice photo!

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Isabela
Isabela 13 years ago

It looks very similar to my http://www.networkedorganisms.com/spotti...

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lori.tas
lori.tas 13 years ago

Common Brown butterfly. This species is very sexually dimorphic.

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lori.tas
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lori.tas

Tasmania, Australia

Spotted on Feb 16, 2010
Submitted on Oct 11, 2010

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