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Species Appias paulina (Cramer, [1777])

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Species Appias paulina (Cramer, [1777])

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Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Oriental Region.


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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal
  • Indonesia
    • Irian Jaya
    • Maluku
  • New Caledonia
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Western Samoa

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Capparis canescens A.Cunn. ex DC. [CAPPARACEAE]; Drypetes deplanchei (Brongn. & Gris) Merr. [PUTRANJIVACEAE]).

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Appias paulina paulina (Cramer, 1777)

Papilio paulina Cramer, P. 1777. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title]. Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild Vol. 2 1–152 pls 92–192 pp. [issued 1777, dated 1775-1790] [21 pl. 110 figs E, F] [issued 1777, dated 1775–1790, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Opinion 516. Determination under the plenary powers of the relative precedence to be assigned to certain works on the Order Lepidoptera (Class Insecta) published in 1775 by Pieter Cramer, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller, Johann Christian Fabricius, Johann Casper Fuessly, and S.A. von Rottemburg respectively. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19: 1–44 [7]].
Type data: type status and whereabouts unknown ♀*; Cramer in the original publication did not indicate the number of specimens he had, but gave two localities, his illustration shows a female; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [291] (incorrectly referred to a holotype).
Type locality: Sri Lanka (as Ceylon by Moore; Cramer in original description gave Tranquebar, Coromandel Coast, India and near Batavia, Java, Indonesia), see Moore, F. 1905. Pieridae. pp. 1–16 in Moore, F. (ed). Lepidoptera Indica. Covent Garden : Lovell Reeve & Co. Vol. 7 286 pp. [8] (on the basis of Cramer's figures, stated that Cramer's localities were wrong and that 'this species is confined to Ceylon'; the interpretation of the subspecies paulina Cramer by all authors since Moore has recognised a type locality of Sri Lanka); Bridges, C.A. 1988. Catalogue of Papilionidae & Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Urbana, Illinois : Charles A. Bridges 323 pp. [I.232] (recorded, but did not verify, the type locality as Sri Lanka (as Ceylon)).

 

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
05-Apr-2011 05-Apr-2011 MOVED
28-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED