Tisiphone helena

"Helena Brown" redirects here. For the politician from Houston, Texas, see Helena Brown (politician).

Tisiphone helena
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Tisiphone
Species:
T. helena
Binomial name
Tisiphone helena
(Olliff, 1888)
Synonyms
  • Epinephile helena Olliff, 1888

Tisiphone helena, the Helena brown or northern sword-grass brown, is a nymphalid butterfly. It is endemic to tropical northern Queensland.

The wingspan is about 60 mm.

The larvae feed on Gahnia species, including Gahnia sieberiana.


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