Subspecies Arhopala micale amytis (Hewitson, 1862)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amblypodia amytis Hewitson, W.C. 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London : British Museum iii 15 pp., 8 pls. [4 pl.2 figs 7-9].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Cape York, QLD (Hewitson gave Australia in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description mentioned both sexes; Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 2. Rec. Aust. Mus. 21(2): 122–125 [124] (fixed a type locality but consistently referred to types and not a single type).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 122-125 [124] (concluded that Cape York was the type locality on the basis of the accession number on the specimens which indicated a Cape York origin as well as on the appearance of the specimens which agreed with Cape York specimens); Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 122-125.
• Amblypodia cyronthe Miskin, W.H. 1890. Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Australian Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) principally Lycaenidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 29-43 [publication date: Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925)] [43].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM T12373 1♂, Cape York, QLD (Cape York and Bowen, QLD, designated in original description); QM T12374 1♂
  Comment: Miskin in the original description stated that he had two males; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [522] (type information).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 122-125 [124] (stated that the locality of Bowen must have been an error); Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519-528.
• Arhopala amytis amphis Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 122-125 [124].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL20428 ♂, Mackay, QLD (Waterhouse designated a type locality in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL20428 2♂ 2♀, Mackay, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description stated that he had many specimens but did not mention a type although he did give a type locality.

  Type locality references:

  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. [25] (gave the label data for the 'holotype').

 

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

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Common and widespread on Torres Strait islands.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1903. A revision of the Amblypodia group of butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 17 1: 1-164 pls I-V [33]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [470]

Evans, W.H. 1957. A revision of the Arhopala group of Oriental Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 5(3): 85-141 [118]

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] [123]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	18-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
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)