Splendid ochre
The splendid ochre is a skipper, a small butterfly with a chunky body that darts quickly from place to place. It lives in the east and south of Australia. Its caterpillars munch on tough, grassy plants called mat-rushes.
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Fun facts
With its wings open, it is about 5 centimetres from one tip to the other.
It lives in four Australian states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
There are three slightly different kinds of it, each living in its own part of Australia, from the hills of north Queensland down to Victoria.
Most asked questions about Splendid ochre
?Where does the splendid ochre live?
In eastern and southern Australia, in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
?What does the splendid ochre caterpillar eat?
It eats mat-rush plants, which have long, tough leaves that look like grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trapezites symmomus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Trapezites symmomus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by John Tann. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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