Other Common Name

Knight’s Dart

Notes

I saw several of these butterflies close to Boambee Creek near Sawtell. They were all in a patch of their strangely-coloured foodplant, under Casuarina trees very close to the waterline.

Sightings

Sawtell – December 2013

Links

• The Complete Field Guide to Australian Butterflies (2nd edition) by Michael F. Braby
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Don Herbison-Evans’ Australian Butterflies website
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Wikipedia
• iNaturalist
• The distribution of the endangered Black Grass-dart Butterfly, Ocybadistes knightorum (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) by Mick Andren and Mark Cameron