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Gallery

Catalog Common Brown Gallery

Adults

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Photography by R. Fisher

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Male upperside (Adelaide Hills)
silvery-grey areas on wings are sex brands.

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Male underside (Adelaide Hills)

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Female upperside (Lower Southeast)

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Females, purple and yellow underside forms (Lower Southeast)

Food Host

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Hostplant Themeda triandra (Kangaroo Grass)

Eggs

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Egg batch laid on the leaf underside of green grass

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Photography by L. Hunt

Closeup of eggs

Larvae

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Photography by L. Hunt

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Photography by L. Hunt

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Photography by L. Hunt

First instar larvae immediately after emerging from eggs, and showing knobs at the tips of the hairs.

Late first instar larvae

Third instar larva

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Photography by L. Hunt

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Photography by L. Hunt

Fifth and final instar larva

Pupae

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Photography by L. Hunt

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All photography by R. Grund unless stated otherwise.