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Common Brown Butterfly

Heteronympha merope

Photo by lori.tas
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Field Notes

Description:

Common brown butterfly. Female.

Habitat:

Mixed dry sclerophyll and native grasses.

Reference Links:

Heteronympha merope

Species ID Suggestions

Klug's Xenica

Geitoneura klugii

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MartinL
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Comments (4)
MartinL
Please consider this may be Klug's Xenica, a slightly smaller but still common 'brown' butterfly. The chevrons on the hind wing are not found in Heteronympha. H. merope will have no pigmentation along the fw discal cell vein. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/73406147
Isabela
It looks very similar to my http://www.networkedorganisms.com/spotting/3426002
lori.tas
Common Brown butterfly. This species is very sexually dimorphic.

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PublishedOctober 11, 2010

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