Longan family : SAPINDACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Acer palmatum 'atropurpureum' Red-leaf Japanese Maple Wyee, January 2007	Acer negundo Box Elder Sydney, October 2006	Acer palmatum Japanese Maple Sydney, December 2006	Aesculus hippocastanum Horse Chestnut Wyee, October 2006
Alectryon coriaceus Beach Birds Eye Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, April 2009	Alectryon tomentosum Woolly Rambutan Photo courtesy of Donald Simpson, Magnetic Island, Qld	Arytera divaricata Coogera Wyee, November 2008	Atalaya hemiglauca Whitewood Photo courtesy of Simon Ong Kununurra, W.A. September 2018
Cupaniopsis anacardioides Tuckeroo Wyee, July 2008	Cupaniopsis flagelliformis Brown Tuckeroo Ginger Factory, Yandina, January 2007	Cupaniopsis newmanii Long Leaved Tuckeroo Ginger Factory, Yandina, January 2007	Dimocarpus longan Longan Sydney, January 2007
Dodonaea triangularis Three winged Hop Bush Sydney, October 2008	Dodonaea viscosa Sticky Hop Bush Photo courtesy of Laura Levens Broken Hill, NSW	Elattostachys nervosa Beetroot Tree Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, February 2009	Guioa lasioneura Silky Tamarind Photo courtesy of Bart Hacobian Millaa Millaa, Qld
Guioa semiglauca Australian Crow Ash Wyee, October 2007	Harpullia pendula Tulipwood Photo courtesy of Jan MacDonald Finch Hatton, Qld	Koelreuteria elegans Golden Rain Tree Byron Bay, April 2007	Litchi chinensis Lychee Wyee, October 2008

Nephelium lappaceum Rambutan Photo courtesy of Buck Richardson, Kuranda, Qld

Some caterpillars of Australian Butterflies and Moths favour species in SAPINDACEAE for their foodplant, including:

Pantoporia venilia	Anthene lycaenoides	Anthene seltuttus	Arhopala centaurus	Arhopala micale	Candalides absimilis	Deudorix epirus
Hypochrysops ignita	Hypolycaena phorbas	Jamides aleuas	Nacaduba berenice	Nacaduba kurava	Prosotas felderi	Prosotas nora

Sahulana scintillata

Peritornenta circulatella	Pingasa chlora	Parosteodes fictiliaria	Cycloprorodes melanoxysta	Conopomorpha cramerella	Aenetus blackburnii	Aenetus scotti
Autoba abrupta	Achaea janata	Oxyodes scrobiculata	Oxyodes tricolor	Homodes bracteigutta	Sympis rufibasis	Chlumetia transversa

Xanthodes congenita

Neola semiaurata

Pheraspis symmetra

Cryptophlebia ombrodelta

Isotenes miserana

Thymiatris allocrossa

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Australian butterflies

Australian caterpillars

Australian moths

(updated 29 May 2013, 14 March 2014, 10 December 2016, 12 August 2018, 8 September 2018)