Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae

Tisiphone abiona  

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)
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© Vik Dunis 2013
Bunyip State Park, VIC (Jan, 2013)
Common Names
  • Varied Sword Grass Brown
  • Swordgrass Brown

The Swordgrass Brown is my fiftieth photographed Australian butterfly species.

Australia is blessed with almost four hundred species of butterfly, so my fifty represents only one-eighth of the total. The United Kingdom, home of butterfly-watching (or collecting in the old days), is home to fifty-nine species.

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Varied Sword Grass Brown

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Varied Sword Grass Brown

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Varied Sword Grass Brown

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Swordgrass Brown Feeding

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Varied Sword Grass Brown

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Swordgrass Brown Feeding

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Race rawnsleyi

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Race rawnsleyi

Swordgrass Brown (Tisiphone abiona)

Race rawnsleyi