Subspecies Bibla papyria papyria (Boisduval, 1832)
White Grassdart
- Hesperia papyria Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [166].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande) (designated in original description)
Comment: Boisduval in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; 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 [120] (suggested that the type may be in MNHP, he also referred to a holotype but did not know the whereabouts of a syntype or make reference to a description or illustration of a syntype).Type locality references:
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 [120] (suggested Sydney, NSW, as the type locality but did not give reasons); 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. - Taractrocera celaeno Cox, H.R. 1873. Entomological notes from South Australia. The Entomologist 6: 401-402 [402].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Nairne, SA (indicated in original description)
Comment: Cox indicated in the original description that he described several specimens by giving two dates. - Hesperilla fumosa Guest, E. 1882. List of diurnal Lepidoptera about Balhannah, Co. Adelaide, with descriptions of new or little-known species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 5: 34-37 [37].
Type data:
Lectotype SAMA ♂, Balhannah, SA (designated in original description)
Comment: Guest in the original description did not indicate how many specimens he described but implied he had many. - Apaustus alix Plötz, C. 1884. Die Hesperiinen-Gattung Apaustus Hüb., und ihre Arten. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 45(4–6): 151-166 [165] [the name alix was given to Plötz by Herrich-Schäffer in an unpublished manuscript; Plötz' fig. 768 referred to in the original description was unpublished; 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 [108] discussed Plötz' collection and unpublished drawings].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♂, Australia (as Neu-Holland) (indicated in original description)
Comment: Plötz in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls [469] (type specimen information). - Apaustus minimus Miskin, W.H. 1889. Descriptions of some new species of Australian Hesperidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 6(4): 146-154 [publication date: Anon. 1889. Royal Society of Queensland. Annual Meeting, 12th July, 1889. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 6: i–xi [iv, vi, x]] [153].
Type data:
Lectotype QM ♂, Victoria (WA has also been cited as a type locality; Miskin in original description gave VIC and WA)
Comment: Miskin in the original description mentioned several localities; 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 [525] (noted that the type specimen was not located in the QM in 1994).Type locality references:
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 [120] (stated that Miskin described both eastern and western Australian specimens in his description of minimus; (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.) Waterhouse in unpublished notes on the Miskin collection in the Queensland Museum made in 1910 recorded a type male from VIC; Lower (1911) [145], probably making use of Waterhouse's information, mentioned a type in the Queensland Museum and did not record Western Australia in the distribution, and, as did Waterhouse (1903) [46], believed that Western Australian specimens were flavovittata; so the type referred to by Lower is the specimen mentioned in Waterhouse's notes from VIC and Lower's reference to a type is accepted as a lectotype designation; in Waterhouse (1903) [46] minimus was included as a synonym of papyria papyria which is only known from the eastern states and the specimen Waterhouse chose in the Miskin collection as type was consistent with his 1903 statement; Waterhouse in his notes commented 'there were no type labels on any Miskin specimens so during July 1910 the probable type was indicated by a label initialled by G.A. Waterhouse and C.J. Wild'; between 1903 and 1937 Waterhouse made no published reference to minimus, in 1937, however, he mentioned a holotype in Brisbane but applied the name on the basis of the balance of Miskin's description rather than the specimen he had selected with Wild and the one to which Lower referred and by doing so regarded minimus as a junior subjective synonym of agraulia rather than papyria papyria as he had in 1903; however, because of Lower's lectotype designation minimus should be applied as a synonym of papyria papyria rather than a synonym of agraulia); 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.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Generic Combinations
- Bibla papyria papyria (Boisduval, 1832).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Lord Howe 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. [191] (biology)
Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [7] (bibliography)
Meyrick, E. & Lower, O. 1902. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26(2): 38-129 [98] (as Apaustus papyria, description)
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] [200] (description, distribution)
History of changes
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