Subspecies Apaturina erminia papuana Ribbe, 1886

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• Apaturina erminea papuana Ribbe, C. 1886. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Lepidopteren-fauna der Aru-Inseln. Correspondenz-Blatt des entomologischen Vereins Iris zu Dresden 1: 73-90 [84] [incorrect subsequent spelling of erminea as erminia].

  Type data:

   Lectotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Aru Is., New Guinea (in original description)
  Comment: Ribbe in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described).

  Type locality references:

  Bryk, F. 1939. Geographische und individuelle Variabilität von Apaturina erminia (Cramer) (Lep. Nymphal.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 24: 32-40 [37] (restricted the type locality to Aru Is.).
• Apaturina erminea microps Röber, J.K.M. 1894. Ueber neue und wenig bekannte Schmetterlinge aus Deutsch-Neu-Guinea und Nias. Entomologische Nachrichten. Dresden 20(23): 360-368 [365].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 2♂, Papua New Guinea (as Deutsch (German) Neu Guinea in original description)
  Comment: Röber in the original description mentioned two male specimens).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• D'Abrera, B. 1990. Butterflies of the Australian Region. Melbourne : Hill House 416 pp. [Date published 31-Dec-90] [242]
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [247]
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [580]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [380] (description, distribution)

D'Abrera, B. 1990. Butterflies of the Australian Region. Melbourne : Hill House 416 pp. [Date published 31-Dec-90] [242] (followed Fruhstorfer's 1914 taxonomic arrangement, included photographs)

Fruhstorfer, H. 1914. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Nymphalidae]. pp. 705-744 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [Date published 23 July 1914] [711] (discussed subspecies)

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [580]

Stichel, H. 1938. Familia Nymphalidae I. Subfamilies: Dioninae, Anetiinae, Apaturinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 86. 1-374 pp. [323] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Apaturina erminia Cramer, 1779, discussed subspecies and synonymies)

Wood, G.A. 1981. First record of Apaturina erminea (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 8(1): 16 [16]

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