Subspecies Belenois java peristhene (Boisduval, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pieris peristhene Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1859. [untitled remarks]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 3(7): clvi-clviii [clv].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, New Caledonia (as Nouvelle-Calédonie in introduction to original description)
  Comment: Boisduval in the original description implied that he had both sexes.
• Anaphaeis java nigrita Joicey, J.J. & Talbot, G. 1928. New forms of Rhopalocera in the Hill Museum. Bulletin of the Hill Museum (Witley) 2(1): 19-27 [19].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1♂, Vanuatu (as New Hebrides) and New Caledonia (in original description); BMNH 1♀
  Comment: Joicey & Talbot designated a type male and a type female; these therefore are the two syntypes although the authors mention other specimens; the syntypes were originally in the Hill Museum.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Talbot, G. 1932. Familia Pieridae I. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 53 pp. 1–320. [187]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Rare vagrants have been found on Lord Howe Is. and the Percy Ils; extralimital distribution—New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Woodlark Is., Loyalty Ils.

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

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. [291] (as Anaphaeis java peristhene (Boisduval, 1859), distribution)

Holloway, J.D. 1977. The Lepidoptera of Norfolk Island, their biogeography and ecology. The Hague : Dr W. Junk 291 pp. [53] (occurrence on New Caledonia, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands discussed)

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] [145] (as Anaphaeis java teutonia, f. peristhene (Boisduval, 1859), description, distribution)

Yata, O. 1985. Part 1 : Pieridae. pp. 206-438 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. II. Japan : Plapac 1-623 pls 1-162. [432] (distribution)

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