Symbrenthia geoffroyi (Jezebel Nymph)

Synonym

This species was formerly classified as Mynes geoffroyi

Other Common names

White Nymph

Notes

Sightings of this species have been few and far between, for me at least. There were a few of them along the sides of the path at Babinda, near Cairns in August 2007.  Unfortunately they always settled fairly high up, and I didn’t get many chances to take photos. This has been a recurring pattern, though at the end of December 2013 I had the good luck to encounter a freshly-emerged female sitting around waist height on a small shrub in the Burleigh Heads National Park. It was right in the rainforest and therefore the light was not at all good, which the photos show, but she was a lovely butterfly.

The shots of larvae from November 2008 were taken in Don Sands’ garden 🙂

Sightings

Babinda, Qld – August 2007
Cairns – September 2008, April 2025
Burleigh Heads National Park – December 2013

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