Anisynta tillyardi, the chequered grass-skipper or Tillyard's skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia in the Dividing Range, at heights of over 1,000 metres in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Anisynta tillyardi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Anisynta |
Species: | A. tillyardi
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Binomial name | |
Anisynta tillyardi Waterhouse & Lyell, 1912
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The wingspan is about 30 mm.
The larvae feed on Poa labillardieri.
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