Subspecies Bindahara phocides yurgama Couchman, 1965

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• Bindahara phocides yurgama Couchman, L.E. 1965. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 99: 81-85 pl. 1 figs 1-10 [82].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL21168 ♂ (Couchman designated a holotype), Cape York, QLD (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL21177 ♀, Atherton, QLD; ANIC 2♂, Atherton, QLD
  Comment: 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. [24] (type information); Edwards, E.D. & Nielsen E.S. 1992. Leonard Edgar Couchman 14 June 1901–17 June 1992. Myrmecia 28(4): 9–12 [11] (gave type repository).

  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.; Edwards, E.D. & Nielsen E.S. 1992. Leonard Edgar Couchman 14 June 1901–17 June 1992. Myrmecia 28(4): 9-12.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

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. [523]

Cooper, W.T., Cooper, W. & Monteith, G.B. 1993. New larval food plants for two Australian fruit-feeding lycaenid butterflies. Australian Entomologist 20: 113-114 [113] (biology)

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [388]

Storey, R.I. & Lambkin, T.A. 1983. Notes on the life history of Bindahara phocides yurgama Couchman (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 10: 35-38 [35] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
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