| Southern Sedge-darter HESPERIINAE, HESPERIIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Picture: courtesy of
CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection)
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| Southern Sedge-darter HESPERIINAE, HESPERIIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Picture: courtesy of
CSIRO Australian National Insect Collection)
The Caterpillars of this species have been found feeding on
The adults are brown with orange patches. The males have a narrow grey line across part of each forewing upper surface. The butterflies have a wingspan up to 3 cms.
The eggs are a flattened dome-shape, and are pale yellow covered in a lacy white net. The eggs have a diameter of about 1.5 mm. They are laid singly on the underside of leaves of a foodplant.
This species occurs in Australia in
Further reading :
Frank Jordan,
The Southern Sedge-darter (Telicota eurychlora),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Newsletter Issue 44 (March 2007).
Oswald B. Lower,
Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 32 (1908), pp. 314-315.
John Moss,
Note on the Evening Brown butterfly (Melanitis leda) hostplants and
clarification of the correct name for the Carex hostplant
of the skipper butterfly the Southern Sedge-darter (Telicota eurychlora),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Newsletter Issue 45 (June 2007), pp. 7-8.
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(written 19 March 2004, updated 5 January 2024)