Notes

I saw this butterfly in a couple of spots at Darwin, in both cases Pelopidas lyelli was also on the wing so I had to check the butterflies to make sure I got shots of B. impar, seeing as it was a species I did not have previously.

Sightings

Darwin – April 2018
Marrakai Road, NT – April 2024

Links

• The Complete Field Guide to Australian Butterflies (2nd edition) by Michael F. Braby
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Don Herbison-Evans’ Australian Butterflies website
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• iNaturalist
• The life history of Borbo impar lavinia (Waterhouse) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) by CE Meyer