Mistletoes and butterflies
Butterflies and their food plants
Examples of three butterflies and their recorded food plants as caterpillars (click images to enlarge)
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Delias argenthona (Northern Jezabel)
Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema miquelli (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema pendula (Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser [LORANTHACEAE],
Decaisnina signata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Dendrophthoe curvata Blume [LORANTHACEAE],
Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE],
Diplatia furcata Barlow [LORANTHACEAE],
Muellerina celastroides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Santalum lanceolatum R.Br. [SANTALACEAE] |
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Delias harpalyce
(Imperial White)
Amyema miquelii (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema pendula (Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema preissii (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Muellerina eucalyptoides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] |
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Ogyris genoveva
(Purple Azure)
Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema congener Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema conspicua (Bailey) Danser [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema miquelii (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema miraculosa (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema pendula (Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE],
Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE],
Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]
Muellerina eucalyptoides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] |
Source of information:
Illustrations: © The Shell Company of Australia Ltd, with permission (petrol swap cards in the 1960s).
Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) - Australian Faunal Directory: Structured Search
www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/search.html
Visit another website on Australian caterpillars and mistletoes by Don Herbison-Evans and Stella Crossley.
Written by Murray Fagg, updated
1 December, 2011
by webmaster, ANBG (anbg-info@anbg.gov.au)