Species Ogyris olane (Hewitson, 1862)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ogyris olane Hewitson, W.C. 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London : British Museum iii 15 pp., 8 pls. [2 pl. 1 fig. 10, 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia (in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not mention the number of specimens described, although he did say that the material was in his own collection; Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp. [144] (listed a single specimen in the Hewitson collection, and this is accepted as evidence for a holotype); Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269–292 [283] (referred to a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 59(5–6): 416–420 [418] (referred to a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101–133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [120] (referred to a holotype).

  Type locality references:

  Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp.; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292; Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [418] (discussed the general area of origin of the holotype); Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [120] (discussed the type locality); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938].
• Ogyris olane ocela Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [419].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL20089 ♀ (Waterhouse designated a holotype), Woodford, NSW (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL20073 1♀, Woodford, NSW; AM KL20071 2♂ 1♀, Woodford, NSW; AM KL20072 1♂, Woodford, NSW; AM KL20090 1♀, Woodford, NSW
  Comment: 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. [419] (type information).

  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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs widely in QLD from Cairns to Townsville, further south it extends from Clermont, QLD, through NSW, ACT and VIC, to the Flinders Ranges and Iron Knob in SA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe).

 

General References

Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1894. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 2. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. pp. 79-129. [105]

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [283]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [482]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [368]

Edwards, E.O. 1956. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae; Genus Ogyris (Azure Blue Butterflies). Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1954–55: 65-66 [65]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [248]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [418]

Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [119]

 

History of changes

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
04-Jun-2020	LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
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