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Species Eurema puella (Boisduval, 1832)

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Species Eurema puella (Boisduval, 1832)

Broad-margined Grass-yellow

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Indonesia
    • Aru Islands
    • Irian Jaya
  • Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Archidendron hirsutum I.Nielsen [MIMOSACEAE]; Ventilago ecorollata F.Muell. [RHAMNACEAE]).

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Eurema puella puella (Boisduval, 1832)

Xanthidia puella Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv 5–267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 (60 pl. 2 fig. 8)].
Type data: syntypes whereabouts unknown ♂*; Boisduval in the original description mentioned several localities and so had several specimens; Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 11: 1–77 pls 1–30 [31] (could not locate a type); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [282] (incorrectly referred to a holotype); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (Parsons' (1998) incorrect reference to a holotype is not accepted as a lectotype designation as he knew of no specimen).
Type locality: New Guinea (in original description), see Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 11: 1–77 pls 1–30 [31] (unjustifiably recorded the type locality as Dutch New Guinea).

 

General References

Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11: 1-77 pls 1-30 [33] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement included Queensland in the distribution of Eurema puella papuana (Butler) but studied no Australian specimens)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023 PAPILIONOIDEA 22-Dec-2023 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
06-Sep-2017 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED