Subspecies Anisynta cynone cynone (Hewitson, 1874)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyclopides cynone Hewitson, W.C. 1874. Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. London : John van Voorst Vol. 5(89-92). [issued 1874, dated 1872–1877] [[115] pl. [60] fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, mouth of Murray River, Australia (Australia was designated in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens he described; Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp. [233] (listed only one specimen in the Hewitson Collection therefore a holotype is assumed); Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the type specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the museums in Australia, with special reference to those in the South Australian Museum. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 5(1): 49–62 [51] (recorded Evans' observation of only one specimen in BMNH); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(3–4): 107–125 [114] (type information).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1940. Australian Hesperiidae. IX. Description of a new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65(5–6): 568 [568] (restricted the type locality to the mouth of the Murray River, SA).
• Hesperilla gracilis Tepper, J.G.O. 1882. The Papilionidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 4: 25-36 pls 2, 3 [34 pl. 2 fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂, Salisbury, Adelaide, SA (designated in original description)
  Comment: Tepper indicated in the original description that he described several specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [114] (referred to a holotype); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (interpret Waterhouse's (1937) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Anisynta cynone grisea Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. II. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(3–4): 218-238 [220].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL10031 ♂, Kerang, VIC (Waterhouse described specimens from Kerang and mentioned Gunbower as a locality but described no specimens from there).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL10031 5♂ 3♀, Kerang, VIC
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description mentioned six males and three females.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [114] (referred to a holotype); 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. [10] (provided type information); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (interpret Waterhouse's (1937) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

80 km north of Deniliquin, NSW, from Robe to Victor Harbor and at Burra and Edithburgh, SA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1894. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 2. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. pp. 79-129. [113] (as Astictopterus cynone, description and figure)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [124] (biology)

Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [82, 83] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1940. Australian Hesperiidae. IX. Description of a new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65(5–6): 568 [568] (historical information on type locality)

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] [182] (description)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		07-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)