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Heteronympha merope
Common brown butterfly, female, The females have much darker patches on their wings, while the males have a more broken and lacy black on orange pattern.
Mixed dry sclerophyll bush and native grasslands, and domestic gardens.
This is the first female I've seen this Summer.
Spotted on Jan 19, 2011
Submitted on Jan 19, 2011
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