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Evening Brown Butterflies

Melanitis leda

Photo by ShannaB
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Field Notes

Notes:

Two large Evening Brown butterflies seen very close to each other in Carnarvon Gorge National Park. The colouring on each specimen is quite remarkably different but, according to my linked resource, they are the same species.

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Evening Brown Butterfly - Melanitis leda

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Comments (2)
MartinL
They look very variable Shanna. Nice pics. Thanks for showing us.

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PublishedMarch 28, 2013

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