| Banded Grass-skipper (previously known as Telesto parvulus) TRAPEZITINAE, HESPERIIDAE, HESPERIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Wes Jenkinson)
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| Banded Grass-skipper (previously known as Telesto parvulus) TRAPEZITINAE, HESPERIIDAE, HESPERIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Wes Jenkinson)
The Caterpillars of this species are pale brown, sometimes with green and/or pink markings. The head is rough and black.
The caterpillars feed on various species of
They pupate in a curled leaf of a foodplant. The pupa is brown, and covered sparsely in stiff white hairs.
These adults are dark brown, with several white spots on each forewing, The males also have a pale grey sex brand edged in darker brown near the centre of each forewing.
 underside (Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph) The undersides are similar to the the upper surfaces, but paler, and with a dark band across each hindwing. The butterflies have a wing span of about 2 cms.
 egg, highly magnified (Photo: courtesy of Ken Walker, Merimbula, New South Wales) The eggs are off-white and shaped like a high dome with about a dozen ribs. As they approach hatching: the eggs develop pink markings. The eggs have a diameter of about 1 mm. They are laid singly on a leaf of a foodplant. The species occurs in
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Wesley Jenkinson,
Carl Plötz,
(updated 2 April 2009, 14 August 2024)
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