Rare Red-eye
Dingy Swift
Green Grass Dart
Dusky Grass-skipper
Chroma Awl
Orange Palm-dart (dark form)
Brown Ochre
Orange Palm-dart (light form)
Yellow Banded Dart
| Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks |
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Hesperiidae |
Skippers, Awls, Darts. The flight is fast and jerky, giving rise to the common name of skippers. The larva of many feed on palms or grasses. |
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Chaetocneme denitza Rare Red-eye |
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Pelopidas agna Dingy Swift |
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Suniana sunias Green Grass Dart |
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Toxidia
thyrrhus Dusky Grass-skipper |
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Hasora
chromus Chroma Awl |
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Cephrenes augiades Orange Palm-dart (dark form) |
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Trapezites iacchus Brown Ochre |
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Cephrenes augiades Orange Palm-dart (light form) |
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Ocybadistes walkeri Yellow Banded Dart |
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Toxidia sp. |
References:
Insects of Australia (Chapter 41: Lepidoptera)
E.S. Nielson and I.F.B. Common
CSIRO, Division of Entomology
1137pp (2 volumes), Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1999.
Page
Butterflies of Australia
Braby, Michael F.
CSIRO Publishing, 2 volumes, 2000
Australian Tropical Butterflies
Valentine, Peter
Photography: Clifford & Dawn Frith
Tropical Australian Graphics, 1988
For a more extensive coverage of the butterfly families link to the following site:
Butterflies of the Townsville Area - Peter Valentine
http://www.tesag.jcu.edu.au/staff/psv/butterflyTSV.html