male
(Picture: courtesy of https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/Collections/ANIC/About-ANIC> CSIRO Australian Nationaal Insect Collection)

The adults are brown with orange patches. The males have a narrow grey line across part of each forewing upper surface. The butterflies have a wingspan up to 3 cms.

egg, magnified
(Photo: courtesy of Ken Walker, Port Maquarie, New South Wales)

The eggs are a flattened dome-shape, and are pale yellow covered in a lacy white net. The eggs have a diameter of about 1.5 mm. They are laid singly on the underside of leaves of a foodplant.

This species occurs in Australia in

Further reading :

Frank Jordan,
The Southern Sedge-darter (Telicota eurychlora),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Newsletter Issue 44 (March 2007) pp. 13-14.

Oswald B. Lower,
Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 32 (1908), pp. 314-315.

John Moss,
Note on the Evening Brown butterfly (Melanitis leda) hostplants and clarification of the correct name for the Carex hostplant of the skipper butterfly the Southern Sedge-darter (Telicota eurychlora),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Newsletter,
Issue 45 (June 2007), pp. 7-8.

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(written 19 March 2004, updated 21 March 2025)