Flame Sedge-Skipper Hesperilla idothea idothea
Wingspan: 36 - 39mm
Sighted: March 2012, Dec 2020
Distribution: from Springbrook SE QLD south through coastal NSW (including ACT) & VIC just into SA to Snuggery near Millicent SA and then NW and South Tasmania.
Status Dorrigo Plateau: uncommon
Wingspan: 36 - 39mm
Sighted: March 2012, Dec 2020
Distribution: from Springbrook SE QLD south through coastal NSW (including ACT) & VIC just into SA to Snuggery near Millicent SA and then NW and South Tasmania.
Status Dorrigo Plateau: uncommon
Flame Sedge-Skipper Hesperilla idothea idothea
Wingspan: 36 - 39mm
Sighted: March 2012, Dec 2020
Distribution: from Springbrook SE QLD south through coastal NSW (including ACT) & VIC just into SA to Snuggery near Millicent SA and then NW and South Tasmania.
Butterfly Sightings:
Larva Sightings:
Larval food plants:
Last autumn sighting - Dorrigo Plateau: 00/03/12
Wingspan: 36 - 39mm
Sighted: March 2012, Dec 2020
Distribution: from Springbrook SE QLD south through coastal NSW (including ACT) & VIC just into SA to Snuggery near Millicent SA and then NW and South Tasmania.
Butterfly Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: Dec 2020, Mar 2012,
- Elsewhere on the DORRIGO PLATEAU: None to date
Larva Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: None to date
- DORRIGO PLATEAU: None to date
Larval food plants:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: CYPERACEAE: Gahnia aspera, G. sieberiana, G. clarkei,
- DORRIGO PLATEAU elsewhere: (as for Claire Cottage)
- ELSEWHERE: (as for Claire Cottage plus) CYPERACEAE: Gahnia grandis, G. melanocarpa, G.radula, G. subaequiglumis, G. trifida
- Whilst we have abundant plants of Gahnia aspera and many Gahnia sieberiana and Gahnia clarkei growing at CLAIRE COTTAGE we have only sighted this butterfly on a few occasions and are yet to confirm that it is breeding here.
Last autumn sighting - Dorrigo Plateau: 00/03/12