Species Anisynta sphenosema (Meyrick & Lower, 1902)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trapezites sphenosema Meyrick, E. & Lower, O. 1902. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26(2): 38-129 [92] [Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112–172 (143) as first reviser gave priority to Trapezites sphenosema Meyrick & Lower, 1902 over Trapezites paraphaes Meyrick & Lower, 1902].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA 3775 ♂ (Meyrick & Lower in the original description indicated that they described only one specimen), Perth, WA (designated in original description)
  Comment: 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] gave type specimen information, and subsequently identified the holotype as a male; 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] (further type information).
• Trapezites paraphaes Meyrick, E. & Lower, O. 1902. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26(2): 38-129 [93].

  Type data:

   Lectotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Perth and King Georges Sound, WA (designated in original description)
  Comment: Meyrick & Lower in the original description described a female in the Lower collection and a male in the Waterhouse collection; the primary description was of the female but the ways in which the male differed from it were also described, so strictly there were two syntypes.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [143] (mentioned types of both paraphaes and sphenosema together, but this cannot be a lectotype designation as it is not individual); 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. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(1): 49-62 [51] (in discussing types in the SAM which incorporated Lower's Collection, stated that the type could not be found); 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 which could not be found in SAM); 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. (if Lower (1911) had had more than one syntype then Waterhouse's reference to a type could not be interpreted as a lectotype designation because no syntype was distinguished from another, however, because the Lower Collection only contained one syntype then Waterhouse's reference to a type is interpreted as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [143]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Geraldton to Albany and Esperance, WA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Microlaena stipoides (Labill.) R.Br. [POACEAE] Meadow Rice Grass; Ehrharta calycina Smith [POACEAE]; Ehrharta longiflora Smith [POACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced foodplants include Ehrharta calycina and Ehrharta longiflora (Poaceae), adults recorded December to May.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [122] (biology)

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] [181] (description)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	22-Dec-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	HESPERIIDAE	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED