Mistletoes and butterflies

Butterflies and their food plants

Examples of three butterflies and their recorded food plants as caterpillars (click images to enlarge)

	Delias argenthona (Northern Jezabel) Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema miquelli (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema pendula (Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser [LORANTHACEAE], Decaisnina signata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Dendrophthoe curvata Blume [LORANTHACEAE], Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE], Diplatia furcata Barlow [LORANTHACEAE], Muellerina celastroides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Santalum lanceolatum R.Br. [SANTALACEAE]
	Delias harpalyce (Imperial White) Amyema miquelii (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema pendula (Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema preissii (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Muellerina eucalyptoides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]
	Ogyris genoveva (Purple Azure) Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema congener Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema conspicua (Bailey) Danser [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema miquelii (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema miraculosa (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema pendula (Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE], Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE], Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Muellerina eucalyptoides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]

Source of information:

Illustrations: © The Shell Company of Australia Ltd, with permission (petrol swap cards in the 1960s).

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) - Australian Faunal Directory: Structured Search
www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/search.html

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