Species · Insecta · Hesperiidae
Altona Skipper Butterfly
Hesperilla flavescensWaterhouse, 1927
PLOT's interpretation: PLOT treats the Altona Skipper as the subspecies Hesperilla flavescens flavescens. The Australian Faunal Directory, PLOT's names backbone, lists only the species Hesperilla flavescens, so the backbone name on this page is the species. Checked: the Australian Faunal Directory through the Atlas of Living Australia's name matching on 21 Oct 2026: it matches the subspecies name only to the species and holds no subspecies of Hesperilla flavescens.
PLOT's interpretation (FFG listing): Victoria's Threatened List names the species Hesperilla flavescens (Yellow Sedge-skipper Butterfly) as Endangered, not the subspecies. That the listing applies to the Altona Skipper, as a subspecies of a listed species, is PLOT's interpretation, not the list's words. Checked: the July 2026 list's Threatened taxa sheet, which has one Hesperilla entry (row 974, the species), and its explanatory notes, which say nothing about subspecies.
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Its locations are withheld: this page never shows where it is recorded more finely than its sources allow.