Last updated:
11 Oct 2022
Distribution of the species within this region
The Golden Sun Moth is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Golden Sun Moth - South Eastern Highlands is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 344 Argyle Apple - Acacia mearnsii valley open forest of the Yass - Rye Park region of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and adjoining NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 352 Red Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum hillslope open forest on meta-sediments in the Yass - Boorowa - Crookwell region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- 3747 Southern Tableland Western Hills Scribbly Gum Forest
- Grasslands
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
- 894 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Eastern Highlands Bi
- 3415 Southern Tableland Red Grass-Spear Grass Grassland
- 1202 Speargrass grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- 1289 Wallaby Grass - Red-grass - Tall Speargrass - Kangaroo Grass dry tussock grassland of the North-western and Eastern Southern Tablelands in the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- Grassy woodlands
- Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
- 350 Candlebark - Blakely's Red Gum - Long-leaved Box grassy woodland in the Rye Park to Yass region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highland Bioregion
- 3370 Central Tableland Red Stringybark Grassy Forest
- 3372 Dalton Hills Grassy Stringybark Forest
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- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
- 337 Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
- 282 Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 277 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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