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Banks' brown
Heteronympha banksii
-37.8567, 145.322
Field Notes
Description:
This one looked to be about 45mm across but I couldn't get within a couple of metres of it. Very active in the sunny parts of the forest, never landing for more than a second or two.
Habitat:
In a nature reserve adjoining a national park.
Notes:
Yet another creature named by Joseph Banks when he accompanied James Cook to explore Australia? Suppoesed to be above 300metres.. have I got the right species? <br>
Larvae feed on Poaceae and Cyperaceae <br>
family: NYMPHALIDAE <br>
subfamily: SATYRINAE <br>
tribe: Satyrini <br>
subtribe: Coenonymphina <br>
and then there are 3 or 4 subspecies !! <br>
Distribution in Australia http://spatial.ala.org.au/?q=lsid:%22urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.t…
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMarch 20, 2014
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