Nature conservation

Threatened species

Black Grass-dart Butterfly - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Ocybadistes knightorum
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 01 Dec 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Black Grass-dart Butterfly is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Coffs Coast and Escarpment Known Within 5 km of coast in Coffs Harbour and Bellingen LGAs
Macleay Hastings Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Black Grass-dart Butterfly - NSW North Coast is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4016 Clarence Floodplain Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4028 Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
      • 4027 Estuarine Swamp Oak-Mangrove Forest
      • 4029 Far North Creekflat Paperbark Swamp Forest
      • 4032 Far North Floodplain Red Gum Sedge Forest
      • 4033 Far North Hinterland Flats Mesic Apple Forest
      • 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
      • 4042 Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
      • 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
      • 4045 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
      • 4046 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Red Gum Forest
      • 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
      • 4048 Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
      • 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
      • 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
      • 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
      • 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 4003 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
      • 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
      • 4005 Northern Paperbark Banksia Littoral Forest
      • 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
      • 4008 Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
      • 3992 Northern Sandy Alluvium Heathy Swamp Forest
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
      • 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
      • 3973 Far North Floodplain Paperbark Sedge Wetland
      • 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
      • 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
      • 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
      • 3791 Far North Headland-Dune Scrub
      • 3795 Mid North Swamp Oak Headland Scrub
      • 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
  • Rainforests
    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3127 Mid North Headland Brush Box Littoral Rainforest
      • 3129 Mid North Sands Littoral Rainforest
      • 3130 Mid North Tuckeroo-Paperbark Littoral Wet Forest
      • 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 4031 Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Rainforest
  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4092 Coastal Headland Sea Spray Grassland
      • 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh