Anisynta tillyardi

Anisynta tillyardi Waterhouse & Lyell, 1912
Tillyard's Skipper
TRAPEZITINAE , HESPERIIDAE

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 1 May 2008)

Anisynta tillyardi
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The Caterpillars of this species are greenish brown, with indistinct dark lines along the body. The Caterpillars live, often communally, in a shelter constructed of dead leaves and debris at the base of a foodplant. They feed nocturnally on :

( Poa labillardieri, POACEAE ).

underside
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)

The adults are brown fading to orange at the wing bases, with cream spots on the forewings. The undersides of the forewings are dark brown with an orangish strip along each costa. but the hindwings have arcs of white spots, and both fore and hind wings have chequered edges underneath. The butterflies have a wing span of about 3 cms.

The eggs are laid in a row of half a dozen on th underside of a leaf of a foodplant.

This species occurs in the Dividing Range, above 1,000 meters, in :

southern Queensland and

northern New South Wales.