Elected representatives in government are in charge of the policy and funding that can make or break saving threatened species. Their decisions and actions matter.
Franklin has or used to have 23 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Tasmanian Chaostola Skipper.
We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.
Tasmanian Chaostola Skipper
Antipodia chaostola leucophaea
Status: Endangered
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories
Antipodia chaostola leucophaea is found across 3 electorates.
The Tasmanian Chaostola Skipper is a butterfly with stout body, brown wings with white to pale yellow spots on the forewings and a suffused yellow patch on each hindwing. The males have a black patch on each forewing. Underneath, the wings are brownish to black with a grey wing tip, a pale indistinct yellow triangle extending from the base to halfway along the costa, and with several white spots, that may be indistinct. The underneath surface of the hindwing are grey with a number of indistinct outlined grey spots. Wingspan ranges from 32 mm to 35 mm.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Adverse fire regimes
Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
- Native Wintercress (Barbarea australis)
- Black-tipped Spider-orchid (Caladenia anthracina)
- Tailed Spider-orchid (Caladenia caudata)
- Sagg Spider-orchid (Caladenia saggicola)
- Forest Fingers (Caladenia sylvicola)
- Pedder Centrolepis (Centrolepis pedderensis)
- Curtis' Colobanth (Colobanthus curtisiae)
- Matted Flax-lily (Dianella amoena)
- Stuart's Heath (Epacris stuartii)
- Pretty Heath (Epacris virgata)
- Morrisby's Gum (Eucalyptus morrisbyi)
- Shy Eyebright (Euphrasia fragosa)
- Swamp Eyebright (Euphrasia gibbsiae subsp. psilantherea)
- Clover Glycine (Glycine latrobeana)
- Basalt Pepper-cress (Lepidium hyssopifolium)
- Hoary Sunray (Leucochrysum albicans subsp. tricolor)
- Reflexed Everlasting (Ozothamnus reflexifolius)
- Moleskin Dogwood (Pomaderris pilifera subsp. talpicutica)
- Dainty Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum amoenum)
- Tapered Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum apoxychilum)
- Chestnut Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum castaneum)
- Milford Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum milfordense)
- Knocklofty Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum perangustum)
- Pretty Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum pulchellum)
- Grassland Greenhood (Pterostylis ziegeleri)
- Sky-blue Sun-orchid (Thelymitra jonesii)
- Swamp Everlasting (Xerochrysum palustre)
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