Some photos of butterflies in HESPERIIDAE in Australia Darters and Skippers HESPERIOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

Note that the males of many HESPERIIDAE species have a 'sex brand'. This is typically a jagged dark-edged pale thin streak across part of each forewing, which otherwise has the same pattern as the female. Some of the photos below are of females, but some are of males and so have the brand.

HESPERIIDAE eggs

HESPERIIDAE caterpillars

HESPERIIDAE pupae

HESPERIIDAE undersides

Allora doleschallii	Allora major	Anisynta cynone	Anisynta dominula
Anisynta monticolae	Anisynta sphenosema	Anisynta tillyardi	Antipodia atralba
Antipodia chaostola	Antipodia dactyliota	Arrhenes dschilus	Arrhenes marnas
Badamia exclamationis	Borbo cinnara	Borbo impar	Carcharodus baeticus
Cephrenes augiades	Cephrenes trichopepla	Chaetocneme beata	Chaetocneme critomedia
Chaetocneme denitza	Chaetocneme porphyropis	Croitana aestiva	Croitana arenaria
Croitana croites	Dispar compacta	Euschemon rafflesia	Exometoeca nycteris
Hasora celaenus	Hasora chromus	Hasora discolor	Hasora hurama
Hasora khoda	Herimosa albovenata	Hesperilla bifasciata	Hesperilla chrysotricha
Hesperilla crypsargyra	Hesperilla crypsigramma	Hesperilla donnysa	Hesperilla flavescens
Hesperilla furva	Hesperilla idothea	Hesperilla malindeva	Hesperilla mastersi
Hesperilla ornata	Hesperilla picta	Hesperilla sarnia	Hesperilla sexguttata
Mesodina aeluropis	Mesodina cyanophracta	Mesodina gracillima	Mesodina halyzia
Mesodina hayi	Mimene atropatene	Motasingha dirphia	Motasingha trimaculata
Neohesperilla crocea	Neohesperilla senta	Neohesperilla xanthomera	Neohesperilla xiphiphora
Netrocoryne repanda	Notocrypta waigensis	Ocybadistes ardea	Ocybadistes flavovittata
Ocybadistes hypomeloma	Ocybadistes knightorum	Ocybadistes walkeri	Oriens augustula
Oreisplanus perornatus	Parnara amalia	Parnara bada	Pasma tasmanica
Pelopidas agna	Pelopidas lyelli	Proeidosa polysema	Rachelia extrusa
Sabera caesina	Sabera dobboe	Sabera fuliginosa	Signeta flammeata
Signeta tymbophora	Suniana lascivia	Suniana sunias	Tagiades japetus
Tagiades nestus	Taractrocera anisomorpha	Taractrocera dolon	Taractrocera ilia
Taractrocera ina	Taractrocera papyria	Telicota ancilla	Telicota anisodesma
Telicota augias	Telicota brachydesma	Telicota colon	Telicota eurotas
Telicota eurychlora	Telicota mesoptis	Telicota ohara	Toxidia andersoni
Toxidia doubledayi	Toxidia inornatus	Toxidia melania	Toxidia parvula
Toxidia peron	Toxidia rietmanni	Toxidia thyrrhus	Trapezites argenteoornatus
Trapezites atkinsi	Trapezites eliena	Trapezites heteromacula	Trapezites iacchoides
Trapezites iacchus	Trapezites luteus	Trapezites maheta	Trapezites macqueeni
Trapezites petalia	Trapezites phigalia	Trapezites phigaliodes	Trapezites praxedes
Trapezites sciron	Trapezites symmomus	Trapezites taori	Trapezites waterhousei

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(updated 3 July 2014, 16 November 2018, 3 October 2020, 15 September 2021)