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Don | profile | all galleries >> # north Australian butterflies # >> # Iron Range butterflies # tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

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# Iron Range butterflies #

Iron Range is a remote area of lowland rainforest, woodland and heath near Lockhart River community on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland.

In late April and early May 2022, I visited the area for 16 days to survey butterflies. Here's a few photos I took of the 85 species I found.

I revisited Iron Range for 8 days in July 2022, taking my total of butterflies for the area to 97 species - and took more photos.

You can view images of the landscapes of the Iron Range area, from photos I took on a visit in 2015, here:
https://pbase.com/donfranklin/ironrangerainforest ,
https://pbase.com/donfranklin/chilli and here
https://pbase.com/donfranklin/tropicalheath
Pied Flat
Pied Flat		 Orange Grass-dart
Orange Grass-dart		 Scrub Darter
Scrub Darter
Bright-orange Darter
Bright-orange Darter		 Narrow-brand Darter
Narrow-brand Darter		 White-clubbed Swift
White-clubbed Swift
Yellow-streaked Swift
Yellow-streaked Swift		 Yellow-streaked Swift caterpillar
Yellow-streaked Swift caterpillar		 Purple Swift
Purple Swift
Blue Triangles
Blue Triangles		 Red-bodied Swallowtail
Red-bodied Swallowtail		 Lined Grass-yellow
Lined Grass-yellow
Broad-margined Grass-yellow
Broad-margined Grass-yellow		 Large Grass-yellow
Large Grass-yellow		 Red-banded Jezebel
Red-banded Jezebel
Purple Crow
Purple Crow		 Small Brown Crow
Small Brown Crow		 Hamadryad
Hamadryad
Black-eyed Plane
Black-eyed Plane		 Orange Plane
Orange Plane		 Yellow-eyed Plane
Yellow-eyed Plane
Chocolate Argus
Chocolate Argus		 Lurcher
Lurcher		 Ocellated Lurcher
Ocellated Lurcher
Leafwing
Leafwing		 Palmfly female
Palmfly female		 Palmfly male
Palmfly male
Evening Brown
Evening Brown		 Cedar Bush-brown
Cedar Bush-brown		 Orange-streaked Ringlet
Orange-streaked Ringlet
Pied Ringlet
Pied Ringlet		 Copper Jewel
Copper Jewel		 Bicolour Moonbeam
Bicolour Moonbeam
Purple Moonbeam
Purple Moonbeam		 Shining Pencil-blue
Shining Pencil-blue		 Orange-tipped Pea-blue
Orange-tipped Pea-blue
Spotted Pea-blue
Spotted Pea-blue		 big noisy butterfly
big noisy butterfly

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victorswan12-Aug-2022 14:55
Wow a lovely and colorfull galery BV
Missed Opportunities05-Aug-2022 23:15
Like this gallery - keep the butterflies coming!
Nestor Derkach29-Jul-2022 19:16
Very nice gallery compositions superb and very nice detail.
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Pieter Bos29-Jul-2022 18:42
Beautiful gallery! ~V
Jeff Real23-Jul-2022 13:21
What a beautiful gallery!
This makes me happy to see it!
V
Tom LeRoy10-Jul-2022 19:23
Wow so many different species. A wonderful collection in great details presented here! V
Fabienne04-Jul-2022 21:49
C’est une splendide série de photos réalisées avec beaucoup talent.
Vos macros sont de toute beauté
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Torben Jorgensen30-Jun-2022 08:58
Great collection of these beautiful butterflies.
janescottcumming19-Jun-2022 22:15
85 species....absolutely incredible! Looking forward to seeing them. V
Nirvan Hope24-May-2022 23:05
85 species! Amazing. And your images show so many in excellent detail.
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