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Gallery

SA Sun-moths Flinders Ranges Sun-moth Gallery

Adults

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'Tent' position
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Open wing position

Resting female (after laying egg),
showing the exaggerated hindwing flash colours

Hostplant

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Ungrazed Cymbopogon ambiguus in an ephemeral creek at Wilpena

The moths retire to cracks in the cliff by late afternoon,
then emerge again the following late morning.

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Cymbopogon ambiguus (Lemon-scented or Kerosene grass) (Poaceae) at Wilpena
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Cymbopogon ambiguus in Yunta Creek
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Cymbopogon ambiguus
in a small ephemeral creek near Olary

Life History

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Partially dehydrated
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Egg of Synemon 'Flinders'
having 6 longitudinal ridges

All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.