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Gallery

Catalog White-veined Grass-skipper Gallery

Adults

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Photography by R. Fisher

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Male, showing its good camouflage within the tussock grass

Food Host

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Pristine Austrostipa grasslands in the Murray Valley,
habitat of the White-veined Grass-skipper

Sheep grazed, historically cleared Austrostipa grasslands at Peterborough,
habitat of the White-veined Grass-skipper

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Austrostipa eremophila the preferred hostplant.
The seeds are bright orange-brown coloured.

Eggs

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The egg wraps itself around the grass stem

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Newly laid egg

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Fertile egg

Larvae

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Early first instar larva

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Final instar larva

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Closeup of head, final instar larva.

Black holes on the body are where small braconid parasitoid wasp larvae have emerged from the skipper larva.

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Spinose secondary setae on anal plate of final instar larva

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Tiny vase-shaped secondary setae on body of final instar larva

Pupae

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Front and side views of operculum (anterior end of pupa).
Ventral side is at bottom of photos.

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Closeup of brush-like operculum bristles

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Ventral view of cremaster
(posterior end of pupa)

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.