1 Evening Brown at Mount George, NSW
Identification history
| Melanitis leda | 21 Jul 2025 | SuziBond | ||
| Geitoneura klugii | 25 May 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Melanitis leda | 25 May 2025 | ibaird | ||
| Unverified | 25 May 2025 | JenniferS |
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AMAZING camouflage!
7 comments
JasonPStewart
wrote:
20 Jul 2025
Don Herbison–Evans @donhe when time available, please identify this butterfly .
Does look like an Evening Brown _Melanitis leda_ to me too.
Does look like an Evening Brown _Melanitis leda_ to me too.
donhe
wrote:
20 Jul 2025
Yes : eyespots correspond to M. leda. I am not a butterfly moderator so sadly I cannot verify Ian's suggestion, and undo CarbonAI's.
JasonPStewart
wrote:
20 Jul 2025
@ibaird Please may you confirm this identification: _Melanitis leda_ .
JenniferS
wrote:
20 Jul 2025
Thanks everyone. I’m really interested to get an ID on this as I believe it’s the most southern sighting (on this platform anyway).
SuziBond
wrote:
21 Jul 2025
Nice find, they're a lovely butterfly. There are records down to Wollongong for this species.
Location information
- Places Mount George, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- JenniferS Recorded by
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Collections
JenniferS NatureMapr Hunter Region Melanitis leda Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
Additional information
- Bark Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Melanitis leda Scientific name
- Evening Brown Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 48m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
- Additional attributes