Commoner in urban parks and villages with orchards where its foodplant Dendropthoe and Loranthus thrive as parasites on fruit and roadside trees.
Habitat indicator
RSP
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WV
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PG
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VF
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FTR
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SC
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LWDF
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LWPF
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LMEF
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UMN
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MN
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Frequency observation
chart: (S marks the usual occurences, H marks an unusually high occurence, F
for first record)
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Mac
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Above pictures of a female: 22 Dec 2014 @ 14:57
a newly eclosed male in my own garden: 28 June 2015 @ 13:29
This male came to nectar on Chromolaena odorata @ 230m : 24 Dec 2016 @ 14:30
Consult the voucher collection from site 6: http://nlliew66butterflies2.blogspot.com/2015/08/tajuria-cippus-fabricius-1798-maxentius.html
