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Anisynta tillyardi

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4765481 ↗
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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.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Poa labillardieri.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anisynta tillyardi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.