Species Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793)

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• Papilio nina Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Tom. 3(Pars 1) iv 487pp. [194] [replacement name for Papilio xiphia Fabricius, 1781; Watkins, H.T.G. 1923. Notes on the butterflies of the Banks Collection. Entomologist 56: 204–209 (207) discussed Fabricius' use of the species names xiphia and nina; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1960. Opinion 584. Addition to the official list of specific names in zoology of the specific name duponcheli Staudinger, 1871, as published in the binomen Leucophasia duponcheli (Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera) and associated matters. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 17: 290–293 (290) listed nina Fabricius, 1793 as Name No. 1709].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (type data are same as for Papilio xiphia Fabricius, 1793), South India.
• Papilio xiphia Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adjectis observationibus descriptionibus. Hamburg and Cologne : Karl E. Bohn Vol. 2 494 pp. [43] [junior homonym of Papilio xiphia Fabricius, 1775].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, South India (as India Orientali in original description)
  Comment: Fabricius in the original description of xiphia did not indicate the number of specimens described, he described xiphia and its replacement name nina from this specimen; Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [535] (listed a single specimen in the Banks collection).

  Type locality references:

  Corbet, A.S. 1941. Observations on certain of the Fabrician names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera (Lepid.). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 10(6): 98-106 [100] (interpreted India orientali as South India and considered Koenig was probably the collector); Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

The Kimberley; extralimital distribution—Lesser Sunda Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded from Australia, but on South West Osborne Island, WA, females laid eggs on small plants of Capparis sepiaria (Capparaceae), and outside Australia larvae feed on Capparis spp. and Crateva spp. (Capparaceae).

 

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Pieridae. pp. 240-242, 358-359 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. [359] (explained that the Australian population had not been formally placed in a subspecies)

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Pieridae. pp. 240-242, 358-359 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. [359] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement explained that the Australian population has not been formally placed in a subspecies, but listed the name of the population on the Lesser Sunda Ils)

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. (no synonyms are listed because the Australian population has not been placed in a subspecies)

Johnson, S.J. 1993. Butterfly records of interest from northern Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 20(2): 75-76 [75]

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. [298]

 

History of changes

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