Black-rimmed Brown Female, Forewing, under | Black-rimmed Brown Female, Hindwing, under | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | Brown Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Black-rimmed Brown (Heteronympha merope ssp merope) | ||||
This Photo: | Female, Hindwing, under | ||||
Other name: | Common Brown | ||||
Thank you Leon Crang, Reiner Richter, Alan Melville & Matt Endacott for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere Male ~17mm body length & ~60mm wingspan. Female was considerably larger at ~17mm body length & ~80mm wingspan. As can be seen the males & females look completely different and easily considered different species. They also emerge at different times of the year; which doesn't make sense at first. The thinking is that only the strongest males are still alive to mate. Thanks to Leon for later taking the id further down to sub-species Similar Species: Klug's Xenica (Geitoneura klugii) | |||||
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