Species Acrodipsas illidgei (Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914)

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• Pseudodipsas myrmecophila illidgei Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [83].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I13453 ♂, Bulimba [Brisbane], QLD (Waterhouse & Lyell originally gave Brisbane, QLD).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL22317 1♀, Goat Is., Brisbane River, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description listed one male and two females; 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] (did not list the paralectotype in the AM).

  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] [256] (gave the label data of the lectotype as Bulimba).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs from Maryborough, QLD, to Brunswick Heads, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: attendant ants.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food/attendant ants, Crematogaster sp. (laeviceps group) [FORMICIDAE] (Myrmicinae).

 

General References

Beale, J.P. 1998. Temporal and spatial distribution of the rare, myrmecophagous Illidge's ant-blue butterfly, Acrodipsas illidgei (Lycaenidae). Journal of the Lepidoptera Society 52: 139-150 [139] (ecology)

Beale, J.P. & Zalucki, M.P. 1995. Status and distribution of Acrodipsas illidgei (Waterhouse & Lyell) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) at Redland Bay, southeastern Qld, and a new plant-association record. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 163-168 [163] (ecology)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [429] (distribution, identification, life-history)

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [339] (distribution, life-history)

Kerr, J.F.R., Macqueen, J. & Sands, D.P. 1968. The specific status of Pseudodipsas illidgei Waterhouse and Lyell stat. n. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 28 [28] (new status as Pseudodipsas illidgei Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914)

Miller, C.G. & Edwards, E.D. 1978. A new species of Pseudodipsas C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from northern New South Wales. Australian Entomological Magazine 5(3): 45-50 [46] (taxonomy)

Samson, P.R. 1989. Morphology and biology of Acrodipsas illidgei (Waterhouse and Lyell), a myrmecophagous lycaenid (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 28: 161-168 [161] (morphology, biology)

Samson, P.R. 1999. Illidge's Ant-blue, Acrodipsas illidgei (Lycaenidae). pp. 239-246 in Kitching, R.L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R.L. & Pierce, N.E. (eds). Biology of Australian Butterflies. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xvi 395 pp. [239] (biology)

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] [256] (taxonomy, biology)

Smales, M. & Ledward, C.P. 1942. Notes on the life-histories of some lycaenid butterflies—Part I. Queensland Naturalist 12(1): 14-18 [15] (observations as Pseudodipsas myrmecophila illidgei)

The IUCN Species Survival Commission 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN & Conservation International : Gland, Switzerland, Cambrridge, UK and Washington, USA. 368 +10 pp. [102] (listed as a threatened species)

 

History of changes

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