Yellow Migrant Catopsilia gorgophone
Wingspan: 56 mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: Nov - Apr.
Distribution of this Migratory species: Coastal areas from Cairns QLD to Illawarra District, NSW.
Wingspan: 56 mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: Nov - Apr.
Distribution of this Migratory species: Coastal areas from Cairns QLD to Illawarra District, NSW.
An end-of-season female, Claire Cottage, 24 Apr 2020
A newly hatched female, Coramba NSW, Apr 2020 (Photo Rowan McCabe)
A newly hatched Yellow Migrant male, Coramba NSW, Apr 2020 (Photo Rowan McCabe) - see its upper wings in the photo below.
The same Yellow Migrant male as above, upperside, Coramba NSW, Apr 2020 (Photo Rowan McCabe)
This poor female's hindwings have failed to unfurl and grow.
Yellow Migrant larva feeding on Senna acclinis, Coramba NSW, (Photograph Rowan McCabe)
Senna acclinis, Bellingen Valley (Photo Ross Macleay)
The following photographs of two pinned specimens of the upperside are by Bob Miller www.bobsbutterflies.com.au/
Male Yellow Migrant upperside
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Female Yellow Migrant upperside
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Yellow Migrant Catopsilia gorgophone
Wingspan: 56 mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: Nov - Apr
Distribution of this Migratory species: Coastal areas from Cairns QLD to Illawarra District, NSW.
Butterfly Sightings:
Larva Sightings:
Larval food plants:
Last autumn sighting - Claire Cottage, Dorrigo Plateau: 24/04/20;
Items of Interest:
Larva found feeding on Senna acclinis at Coramba, NSW Mid North Coast, summer 2020.
The climate on the Dorrigo Plateau appears to be too cool for species of Senna to survive with the exception of Senna acclinis.
There are two seasonal forms, a pale form and a dark form
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Wingspan: 56 mm
Sighted at Claire Cottage: Nov - Apr
Distribution of this Migratory species: Coastal areas from Cairns QLD to Illawarra District, NSW.
Butterfly Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: Nov 2005; Dec 2004, 2017; Jan 2004, 2006, 2017; Feb 2001, 2002, 2004, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020; Mar 2015; Apr 2001, 2013, 2020;
- DORRIGO PLATEAU: Some sightings
Larva Sightings:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: None to date
- DORRIGO PLATEAU: None to date
Larval food plants:
- CLAIRE COTTAGE: CAESALPINIACEAE - Senna acclinis
- DORRIGO PLATEAU: (as for Claire Cottage)
- ELSEWHERE: (as for Claire Cottage plus) CAESALPINIACEAE - Senna gaudichaudii, Senna sulfurea, *S. auriculata, *S. surattensis
Last autumn sighting - Claire Cottage, Dorrigo Plateau: 24/04/20;
Items of Interest:
Larva found feeding on Senna acclinis at Coramba, NSW Mid North Coast, summer 2020.
The climate on the Dorrigo Plateau appears to be too cool for species of Senna to survive with the exception of Senna acclinis.
There are two seasonal forms, a pale form and a dark form
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