Barred or Dispar Skipper (Dispar compacta)

Pictured in a Gap Road garden. Above is a female on Mirbelia dilitata (WA plant).
Below, also a female, feeding on a Thryptomene sp. flower.
Far below is a male, also feeding on a Thryptomene sp. flower.

Larvae possibly feed on plants from the families Poaceae,
Cyperaceae
and/or Xanthorrhoeaceae in Riddells Creek.

Male below.

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