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Trapezites heteromacula

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ3284716 ↗
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Trapezites heteromacula, the orange white-spot skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found on Australia's Cape York.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Lomandra filiformis and Lomandra longifolia.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trapezites heteromacula” 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.