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Orange Palm Dart Butterfly

Cephrenes augiades

Photo by JamesPriest2
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Field Notes

Description:

Body stout. Wings black with orange markings. Female with smaller orange markings than male and sometimes uniform dark brown. Wingspan to about 4 cm. (1.5 inches)

Habitat:

Seeing it fairly regularly around my garden at the moment feeding on nectar from my daisies.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)
JamesPriest2
Thank you Jim :-). Yes it seems the Skipper butterflies are related to this particular butterfly
Jim Nelson
These look much like what we call skippers in Nevada. Nice photos, James!
Neil Ross
I've always added them there. Insects are part of the animalia kingdom, so they'll be fine :)
JamesPriest2
Thanks again Neil. Yes I have joined that mission, but wasn't so sure about putting insects in it, but I will now. :-)
Neil Ross
It looks like a painting. Gorgeous. Great spotting, James. There's a good local mission you may wish to add this to also - Flora & Fauna of New South Wales - http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8642428

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PublishedOctober 10, 2016

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