Species Eurema drona (Horsfield, 1829)

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• Terias drona Horsfield, 1829.

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH male, Java, Indonesia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Yata, O. 1989. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part I. Phylogeny and zoogeography of the subgenus Terias Swainson and description of the subgenus Eurema Hübner. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 9: 1-103 pls 1-24; Irungbam, M., Irungbam, J.S., Rindos, N., Maresova, J.P. & Fric, Z.F. 2023. Phylogeography of the small grass yellow Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) unveils the existence of distinct taxa within the Paleotropics. Austral Entomology 62: 410–417 [Date published 19 December 2023].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Irungbam, M., Irungbam, J.S., Rindos, N., Maresova, J.P. & Fric, Z.F. 2023. Phylogeography of the small grass yellow Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) unveils the existence of distinct taxa within the Paleotropics. Austral Entomology 62: 410–417 [Date published 19 December 2023]

Generic Combinations

• Eurema drona (Horsfield, 1829).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Irungbam, M., Irungbam, J.S., Rindos, N., Maresova, J.P. & Fric, Z.F. 2023. Phylogeography of the small grass yellow Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) unveils the existence of distinct taxa within the Paleotropics. Austral Entomology 62: 410–417 [Date published 19 December 2023]

Introduction

Irungbam et al. (2023) revised the taxonomy of Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780), which is distributed throughout most of the Old World tropics, including Africa and Madagascar. The authors undertook a phylogeographic study of this species by comparing Afrotropical, Malagasy and Oriental-Australian populations based on COI. They found a deep split between the Afrotropical and Oriental-Australian populations of this taxon, which are separated by the Indian Ocean and dry eremic habitats on the northern coasts. Based on these genetic patterns and known morphological evidence, they transferred the Oriental-Australian populations into a separate species, Eurema drona (Horsfield, 1829), which they reinstated, with the Australian taxa comprising the subspecies E. drona australis Wallace, 1867.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Irungbam, M., Irungbam, J.S., Rindos, N., Maresova, J.P. & Fric, Z.F. 2023. Phylogeography of the small grass yellow Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) unveils the existence of distinct taxa within the Paleotropics. Austral Entomology 62: 410–417 [Date published 19 December 2023]

History of changes