Species Apaturina erminia (Cramer, 1779)

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Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded from Australia, but on Bougainville an empty pupal case was found attached to a leaf of Celtis latifolia (Ulmaceae), a genus that occurs in northern QLD.

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Apaturina erminea erminea (Cramer, 1779)

Papilio erminea Cramer, P. 1779. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title]. Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild Vol. 3(17–21) 1–104 pls 193–252 pp. [issued 1779, dated 1775-1790] [5 pl. 196 figs A, B] [issued 1779, dated 1775–1790, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Opinion 516. Determination under the plenary powers of the relative precedence to be assigned to certain works on the Order Lepidoptera (Class Insecta) published in 1775 by Pieter Cramer, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller, Johann Christian Fabricius, Johann Casper Fuessly, and S.A. von Rottemburg respectively. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19: 1–44 [7]].
Type data: type status and whereabouts unknown ♂*; Cramer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Bryk, F. 1939. Geographische und individuelle Variabilität von Apaturina erminia (Cramer) (Lep. Nymphal.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 24: 32–40 [34] (indicated that the type came from Ambon); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [580] (referred to a holotype, but knew of no specimen); 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. (Bryk (1939) in indicating that the type came from Ambon did not designate a lectotype, but effectively restricted options should syntypes be identified; Parson's (1998) incorrect reference to a holotype is not accepted as a lectotype designation as he knew of no specimen).
Type locality: Ambon (as Amboina), Maluku, Indonesia (the coast of Bengal was given, incorrectly, in original description), see Ribbe, C. 1886. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Lepidopteren-fauna der Aru-Inseln. Correspondenz-Blatt des entomologischen Vereins Iris zu Dresden 1: 73–90 [84] (considered that the specimen(s) figured by Cramer came from Celebes or Amboina); Bryk, F. 1939. Geographische und individuelle Variabilität von Apaturina erminia (Cramer) (Lep. Nymphal.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 24: 32–40 [34] (restricted the type locality to Ambon).

 

History of changes

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