Anisynta tillyardi

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Anisynta tillyardi
Anisynta tillyardi (ento-csiro-au).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Anisynta
Species:
A. tillyardi
Binomial name
Anisynta tillyardi
Waterhouse & Lyell, 1912

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.

Chequered Grass-skipper, The Falls QLD 4373, Australia imported from iNaturalist photo 465288368.jpg

The larvae feed on Poa labillardieri .