Species Acrodipsas melania Sands, 1980
Grey Ant-blue
- Acrodipsas melania 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] [257].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC 3294 ♂ (Sands in the original description designated a holotype), Mt White, Coen, QLD (designated in original description).
Paratype(s) ANIC 9♂ 2♀, Mt White, Coen, QLD; AM 1♂, Mt White, Coen, QLD; QM 1♂, Mt White, Coen, QLD; MSMC 1♂, Holroyd River, QLD; CGM 19♂ 1♀, Mt White, Coen, QLD; AM KL223881 1♂, Cape York, QLD.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: unknown.
Extra Ecological Information
Larval food/attendant ants not recorded.
General References
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [431] (distribution, identification)
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. [340] (distribution)
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