Butterflies of Tasmania

Adult butterflies alpine altitudes areas Australian Museum Bass Strait breed in Tasmania butterflies Central Plateau chlorinda colour Common Brown Cyperaceae darker December to March DISTRIBUTION eastern Tasmania egg is pale Epacridaceae Fabaceae FAMILY females FLIGHT PERIOD Flinders Island flowers FOODPLANT forewing grassy woodland greenish habitat Hesperiidae WINGSPAN Hobart hobartia IMMATURE STAGES insects Julie Virtue 1992 laid singly larva leaf Leprea Brown Lesser Wanderer locally common Lycaenidae WINGSPAN mainland Australia Male Marrawah Mathew's Blue Midlands Miskin Native grasses nectar November to March Nymphalidae WINGSPAN occur in Tasmania open forest over-winter pale green Phil Collier Pieridae Pittosporaceae PLATE Poaceae probably Ptunarra Brown pupa Pupation Queensland recorded sea level sedges SEXES Similar Skipper Hesperilla South Australia South Wales south-eastern Australia Southern Queensland southern Western Australia STAGES AND BIOLOGY subspecies Tasmanian butterfly Tasmanian Hairstreak Tasmanian populations belong underside of wing upperside Victoria and Tasmania Waterhouse Widespread in Tasmania wing on right