Melanitis leda
Evening Brown at Pappinbarra, NSW
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| Melanitis leda | 10 Sep 2025 | SuziBond | ||
| Melanitis leda | 10 Sep 2025 | TiffanyMason | ||
| Doleschallia bisaltide | 9 Sep 2025 | jonvanbeest |
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When in flight, flashes of orange were visible on it's upper wings.
When disturbed, would fly a short distance and land back on the forest floor.
Almost impossible to detect unless you keep your eyes on where it landed.
1 comment
jonvanbeest
wrote:
10 Sep 2025
From what records I can come up with, this is more a Queensland species, with the southern limit around Bellingen and very few records in nsw.
Location information
- Coordinates 152.516928-31.404220
- Places Pappinbarra, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 9 Sep 2025 09:51 AM Recorded on
- jonvanbeest Recorded by
- It was on the rainforest floor. Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Collections
- jonvanbeest NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Melanitis leda Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
Species information
- Melanitis leda Scientific name
- Evening Brown Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 72.6m Recorded at altitude
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