Heteronympha merope

Common Brown Butterfly at Drouin, VIC

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Location information

• Coordinates 145.833743-38.095597
• Places Drouin, VIC

Sighting information

• 101 - 1,000 Abundance
• 14 Feb 2024 09:22 AM Recorded on
• Petesteamer Recorded by

• Collections

  Insects Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Petesteamer Gippsland NatureMapr

Additional information

• Perching mainly on leaf litter or tree bark in mixed Lowland forest habitat. Eucalypts interspersed with Angophora, good understory of shrubs, grasses and bracken Associated plant
• 5mm to 12mm Animal size
• Mixed Gender
• Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
• Alive / healthy Animal health

Species information

• Heteronympha merope Scientific name
• Common Brown Butterfly Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local native
• Non-invasive or negligible
• Up to 1726.8m Recorded at altitude
• 1238 images trained Machine learning
• External link More information

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