Showing posts with label Cupha prosope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cupha prosope. Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2012

Australian Rustic Butterfly

Yesterday morning we spotted this butterfly (there were actually at least two) moving around and resting on a medium sized shrub/small tree near the front of the property.  We  have several times over the years considered the ID of the plant but have never come to a definite conclusion -  I have thought it to be a Eugenia sp but it looks like I might need to alter that.



The butterfly is an Australian Rustic or  Cupha prosope



The above website mentions four native plants that are host plants:
-Coffee Plum (Flacourtia jangomas) Flintwood (Scopia braunii) and Xylosma ovatum and terraereginae.  Assuming the butterfly has sought this plant out as a host plant it helps with the plant ID. This is the first occasion we have  seen this species of butterfly here in Chandler.