Species Acrodipsas cuprea (Sands, 1965)

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Species Acrodipsas cuprea (Sands, 1965)

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Pseudodipsas cuprea Sands, D.P. 1965. A new species of Pseudodipsas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 4: 69-71 [69].
Type data:
Holotype AM KL22388 ♂ (Sands in the original description designated a holotype), Toronto, NSW (designated in original description).
Paratype(s) AM KL22388 2♂, Toronto, NSW; AM KL22386 1♂, Toronto, NSW; AM KL22387 3♂, Toronto, NSW; NMV T3545 1♂, Toronto, NSW; NMV T3546 1♂, Toronto, NSW; NMV T3547 1♂, Toronto, NSW; NMV T3548 1♂, Toronto, NSW; ANIC 1♂, Toronto, NSW; AM KL22384 1♀, Newcastle, 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. [28] (gave type information); Sands, D.P.A. 1980. A new genus, Acrodipsas, for a group of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) previously referred to Pseudodipsas C. & R. Felder, with descriptions of two new species from northern Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18(3): 251–265 [262] (listed the types); (the NMV web site listed the types in the NMV).
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.; Sands, D.P.A. 1980. A new genus, Acrodipsas, for a group of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) previously referred to Pseudodipsas C. & R. Felder, with descriptions of two new species from northern Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18(3): 251-265 [Date published 14/Mar/1980].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)