Animal Species:Common Dart Butterfly
The Common Dart is easily spotted in Sydney gardens with its orange and yellow wing patterns.
Common Dart, Ocybadistes flavovittatus
Andrew Donnelly
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Size range
2 cm
Habitat
The Common Dart lives in urban gardens, forests and woodlands, heath.
Seasonality
The Common Dart is usually seen flying from September to May.
Life cycle
The eggs of the Common Dart are laid individually on a blade of grass and when the small, green caterpillars emerge they are well camouflaged among the grass.
Classification
- Species:
- flavovittatus
- Genus:
- Ocybadistes
- Subfamily:
- Hesperiinae
- Family:
- Hesperiidae
- Superfamily:
- Hesperioidea
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Class:
- Insecta
- Subphylum:
- Uniramia
- Phylum:
- Arthopoda
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
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