Species Euploea phaenareta (Schaller, 1785)

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Regional Maps

• Papilio phaenareta Schaller, 1785.

  Secondary source:

   Ackery, P.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1984. Milkweed Butterflies their Cladistics and Biology being an account of the natural history of the Danainae, a subfamily of the Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 425 pp. [216].
• Euploea phaenareta (Schaller, 1785).

Generic Combinations

• Papilio phaenareta Schaller, 1785.
• Euploea phaenareta (Schaller, 1785).

Introduction

Lane et al. (2020) recorded the species Euploea phaenareta (Schaller, 1785) from Australia for the first time based on a single specimen collected from Dauan Island, Torres Strait, QLD, on 25 FEB. 2020. The specimen was identified as the subspecies Euploea phaenareta callithoe Boisduval, 1832, which occurs on mainland New Guinea and some of its adjacent islands.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Lane D.A., Moulds M.S. and Hopkinson M. 2020. First Australian records of Euploea phaenareta callithoe Boisduval (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danaiinae), Xyleutes strix (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Zeurinae) and Alcides agathrysus (Kirsch) (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae: Uraniinae). Australian Entomologist 47(3): 212-220

History of changes