Species Acrodipsas mortoni Sands, Miller & Kerr, 1997

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• Acrodipsas mortoni Sands, D.P.A., Miller, C.G. & Kerr, J.F.R. 1997. A new species of Acrodipsas Sands (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from inland New South Wales and southern Queensland. Australian Journal of Entomology 36: 19-23 [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (Sands, Miller & Kerr in the original description designated a holotype), Coogal Mt, 410 m, 5.5 km W of Mullaley, NSW (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) ANIC 5♂ 2♀, Gunnedah area, NSW; REC 3♂, Gunnedah area, NSW; SJJ 2♂, Gunnedah area, NSW; CGM 36♂ 7♀, Gunnedah area, NSW; BCW 1♂, Warwick, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from the Gunnedah and Mullaley area, NSW, and Warwick, QLD.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: unknown.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food/attendant ants not recorded.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)