| Solander's Brown SATYRINAE, NYMPHALIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
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| Solander's Brown SATYRINAE, NYMPHALIDAE, PAPILIONOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
These Caterpillars are initially pale green with a black head. Later instars are green or brown with a darker markings, including a dark spot on the back of the first three abdominal segments. The head is brown with a black triangular mark, and has two pink tipped horns. The tail also has a pair of horns. The caterpillars grow to a length of about 2.5 cms. They feed on various species of
The caterpillars feed nocturnally, hiding by day at the base of the tussock.
The pupa is green or brown with ridges and spikes, some edged in cream. It is is suspended by a cremaster from a foodplant stem or an object near the foodplant. Its length is about 1.5 cms.
The wings of the adult butterflies on top are brown with yellow patches. Each forewing has a white spot near the wingtip, and each hindwing has an eyespot.
Underneath, the forewings are similar, but the hind wings are pale brown with thin wavy dark brown lines. The butterflies have a wing span of about 4 cms.
The eggs are pale green and spherical, and covered in about 1,000 microscopic dimples. The eggs have a diameter of about 1 mm. They are laid singly on a foodplant.
The species occurs in the mountains of
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 2, pp. 517-518.
Gustavus Athol Waterhouse,
On a new species of Heronympha and a new variety of Tisiphone abeona,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 29, Part 3 (1904), pp. 466-468.
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(updated 21 July 2004, 8 April 2017, 18 JUne 2020, 28 September 2021)