Subspecies Nacaduba kurava cyaneira Fruhstorfer, 1916

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• Nacaduba perusia cyaneira Fruhstorfer, 1916.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 13: 69–116.
• Nacaduba kurava pacifica Toxopeus, 1927.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Goodenough Island.

  Secondary source:

   Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.

Introduction

Johnson and Wilson (2019) recorded this subspecies from Australia based on a series of 8 males and 3 females collected from Dauan Island, Torres Strait.

Distribution

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk. [SAPINDACEAE] Beach Tamarind; Rapanea variabilis (R.Br.) Mez [MYRSINACEAE] Muttonwood; Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco [MYRSINACEAE] River Mangrove; Embelia curvinervia S.T.Reynolds [PRIMULACEAE]; Maesa dependens F.Muell. [MYRSINACEAE]; Maesa haplobotrys F.Muell. [MYRSINACEAE]).

General References

Johnson, I.R. & Wilson, P.R. 2019. New Australian records for subspecies of Nymphalidae and Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) from Dauan Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Entomologist 46(3): 113-118

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