Tisiphone helena
| Tisiphone helena | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Tisiphone |
| Species: | T. helena |
| Binomial name | |
| Tisiphone helena (Olliff, 1888) | |
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Tisiphone helena, the Helena brown or northern sword-grass brown, is a nymphalid butterfly. It is endemic to tropical northern Queensland.
The wingspan is about 60 mm.
The larvae feed on Gahnia species, including Gahnia sieberiana.
External links
- Australian Caterpillars
- "Tisiphone Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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