| Spotless Skipper (one synonym: Telesto uniformis Swinhoe, 1905) TRAPEZITINAE, HESPERIIDAE, HESPERIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
This Caterpillar is a translucent pinkish green, with obscure linear markings. The head is black with a white line down each side. The caterpillar lives in the debris at the foot of its foodplant or in a shelter of leaves joined with silk. The caterpillar grows to a length of about 2 cms. It feeds on various grasses ( POACEAE ), including :
The butterflies of this species are dark brown all over, with a purple suffusion on both the upper and under surfaces of the wings. The butterflies have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms. The males have a black line across part of the upper surface of each forewing.
The species is found in
and in Australia in
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, p 134.
Arthur G. Butler,
Descriptions of some new species of diurnal Lepidoptera,
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
Series 5, Volume 11 (1883), p. 424, No. 87.
 caterpillar |  butterflies |  Lepidoptera |  moths |  caterpillar |
(written 18 June 2002, 2 October 2013, 5 June 2020)