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Gallery

Catalog Symmomus Rush-skipper Gallery

Adults

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Female

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Female

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Adults nectar feeding on flowers of Scabiosa

Food Host

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Habitat of Trapezites symmomus
Open forest with understorey of Lomandra longifolia

Lomandra longifolia, hostplant of Trapezites symmomus

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Dried flower heads of Lomandra longifolia upon which eggs are often laid.
Notice the larval eat marks below the tips of some of the lower leaves.

Eggs

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Egg, just before emergence of larva

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Eggs, at various stages of development, attached to dried flower heads of foodplant.

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Larvae

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Immature larvae just after emergence from egg

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Fully grown larva

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Head of fully grown larva

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Secondary setae on fifth instar larva

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Pupae

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Pupae, displayed inside opened shelters

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.