| Silver-studded Ochre TRAPEZITINAE, HESPERIIDAE, HESPERIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Martin Purvis, Sydney, New South Wales)
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| Silver-studded Ochre TRAPEZITINAE, HESPERIIDAE, HESPERIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
male
(Photo: courtesy of
Martin Purvis, Sydney, New South Wales)
This Caterpillar hatches from an egg laid singly on a leaf of a foodplant. The caterpillar is greenish-grey with faint longitudinal dark lines. It has a brown head with two pale spots and two pale lines. The Caterpillar constructs a shelter at the base of its foodplant from dead leaves and silk. It lives in its shelter by day and emerges at night to feed. Its food plant is :
The caterpillar pupates in its shelter. The pupa is pale brown with dark spots, and covered in white waxy powder. It is oriented head upward.
The adult butterfly is dark brown with a series of translucent white and yellow patches on each fore wing. The hind wings each have a broad yellow band. Underneath, the fore wings are similar to their upper surfaces, but each hind wing is grey with up to nine white spots, each outlined in black. The wing span is about 3 cms.
The species occurs in the mountains and along the coast of :
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, pp 94-95.
Gustavus Athol Waterhouse,
Descriptions and notes of Australian Hesperidae, chiefly Victorian,
Victorian Naturalist,
Volume 20, Part 4 (1903), pp. 56-57.
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(updated 18 November 2009, 5 January 2024)