Subspecies Ogyris halmaturia waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905)

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• Ogyris waterhouseri Bethune-Baker, 1905.

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM AM KL20205 ♂, Grampians, Victoria
  Comment: Bethune-Baker in the original description mentioned both sexes but not a type and did not indicate where his type material was deposited; Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [26] (listed a holotype in the AM; no published source has been found to indicate that part of Bethune-Baker's series was borrowed from or given to Waterhouse but this may have been the case). Edwards et al. (2001), Braby and Douglas (2008) and Beaver et al. (2023) reviewed the type material, type locality and nomenclature of Ogyris waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905). Bethune- Baker (1905) described the species from Victoria based on material dispatched by G.A. Waterhouse (see Waterhouse and Lyell 1908) but did not indicate the number of specimens available. Braby and Douglas (2008) concluded that Bethune-Baker had at most three syntypes (1♂, 2♀) and that the type locality was most likely the Grampians based on the plate index for the lectotype male illustrated by Waterhouse and Lyell (1914, pl. 18, fig. 400) and referred to by Peters (1971) as the holotype. However, re-examination of O. waterhouseri material in AM and G. A. Waterhouse’s original register indicated that only two specimens (1♂, 1♀) were sent to England and subsequently returned to Australia( Beaver et al. 2023). These type specimens have the label ‘Ogyris waterhouseri B-B’ in Bethune-Baker’s original handwriting. Edwards et al. (2001) considered Peters' (1971) incorrect reference to a ‘holotype’ as a lectotype designation. Beaver et al. (2013) agreed with the conclusion of Edwards et al. (2001) and considered the second (female) specimen, referred to above, in AM and illustrated by Waterhouse and Lyell (1914, pl. 18, fig. 402), a paralectotype.

  Type locality references:

  Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp.; Braby, M.F. & Douglas, F. 2008. The nomenclature, taxonomy and conservation status of Ogyris waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905) stat. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), a threatened butterfly from southern Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 47(4): 315-329; Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023].

Generic Combinations

• Ogyris halmaturia waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905).

Introduction

Beaver et al. (2023) treated Ogyris waterhouseri as a subspecies of O. halmaturia based on consistent morphological differences between populations on the Australian mainland and Kangaroo Island, SA.

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

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