Australian Painted Lady
Hairy Eyes
Australian Painted Lady
Courting
| Australian Painted Lady Hairy Eyes | | Australian Painted Lady Courting | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Brown Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi) | ||||
| This Photo: | Anterior | ||||
Thank you Thomas Mesaglio 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 Medium sized butterfly with 3 blue and 1 black spots (eye mimics) on the rear (outer margin) of the hindwings. An attractive array of orange, black & white patterns. They have hairy eyes! Various specimens are missing some of the black line on the hindwing forward of the black eye spot. We found 2 specimens that had spurious white spot in the middle of orange patches. However, they are in different places to each other, and not on any others we've found. They look like some sort of invert (eg a white mite), but the spots are in identical places on each side of the wing. | |||||
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