Species Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)

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Species Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866)

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Hesperia cinnara Wallace, A.R. in Wallace, A.R. & Moore, F. 1866. List of lepidopterous insects collected at Takow, Formosa, by Mr. Robert Swinhoe. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866(2): 355-365 [publication date: Duncan, F.M. 1937. Dates of publication of the society's Proceedings, 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of "Proceedings" 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the "Transactions", 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London A 107: 71–84] [361].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Taiwan (as Formosa; designated in original description)
Comment: Wallace in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Hesperia colaca Moore, F. 1877. The lepidopterous fauna of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877(3): 580-632 pls 58-60 [publication date: Duncan, F.M. 1937. Dates of publication of the society's Proceedings, 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of "Proceedings" 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the "Transactions", 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London A 107: 71–84] [594 pl. 58 fig. 7].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Port Blair, South Andaman (as South Andaman Is), Bay of Bengal, India (designated in original description)
Comment: Moore described both sexes in the original description.
Parnara cingala Moore, F. 1881. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1(2–4) pp. 41-190 pls 19-71. [issued 1881, dated 1880-1881] [167 pl. 70 figs 3, 3a, 3b].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Sri Lanka (as Ceylon; designated in original description)
Comment: Moore described both sexes in the original description.
Hesperia karsana saturata Wood-Mason, J. & de Nicéville, L. 1882. Second list of diurnal Lepidoptera inhabiting the Nicobar Islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 51(1): 14-20 [19].
Type data:

Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀, Kulu, Himalayas, India and Camorta (as Kamorta), Nicobar Ils (designated in original description); whereabouts unknown 1♀, Kulu, Himalayas, India and Camorta (as Kamorta), Nicobar Ils (designated in original description)
Comment: Wood-Mason & de Nicéville in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Hesperia saruna Plötz, C. 1885. Neue Hesperiden des Indischen Archipels und Ost-Africa's aus der Collection des Herrn H. Ribbe in Blasewitz-Dresden, gesammelt von den Herren: C. Ribbe auf Celebes, Java und den Aru-Inseln; Künstler auf Malacca (Perak); Kühn auf West-Guinea (Jekar); Menger auf Ceylon. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 29(2): 225-232 [227].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♀, Ambon, Indonesia (India as Indien in original description)
Comment: Plötz in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Type locality references:
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. [437] (suggested Ambon as the type locality, gave sex of type material and, on p. 469, discussed Plötz' unpublished figures).
Hesperia urejus Plötz, C. 1885. Neue Hesperiden des Indischen Archipels und Ost-Africa's aus der Collection des Herrn H. Ribbe in Blasewitz-Dresden, gesammelt von den Herren: C. Ribbe auf Celebes, Java und den Aru-Inseln; Künstler auf Malacca (Perak); Kühn auf West-Guinea (Jekar); Menger auf Ceylon. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 29(2): 225-232 [226].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♂, Aru Is. (as Aru-Insel), Indonesia (designated 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 [437] (type specimen information).
Type locality references:
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.
Parnara kuyaniana Matsumura, S. 1919. Thousand Insects of Japan, Additamenta. Tokyo : Keiseisham Vol. 3[4] 475-740 1-34 3 2 pls 26-53. [in Japanese] [677 pl. 51 fig. 21].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Taiwan (as Formosa, designated in original description)
Comment: Matsumura in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Type locality references:
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. [446].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Heppner, J.B. & Inoue, H. (eds) 1992. Lepidoptera of Taiwan. Checklist. Gainsville : Association for Tropical Lepidoptera Vol. 1(2) xlix 276 pp. [132]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Fiji, Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, China (People's Republic), India.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton [POACEAE] Itch Grass).

General References

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. [446] (listed Parnara kuyaniana Matsumura, 1919 as a synonym of Polytremis lubricans taiwana Matsumura, 1919)

Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [163] (as Parnara colaca (Moore, 1877), description, synonymy of Hesperia colaca Moore, 1877, Parnara cingala Moore, [1881], Hesperia urejus Plötz, 1885 and Hesperia saruna Plötz, 1886)

Shirôzu, T. 1960. Butterflies of Formosa in Colour. Osaka : Japan [vi] 481 pp. [460] (synonymy of Borbo cinnara (Wallace, 1866) and Parnara kuyaniana Matsumura, 1919)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	22-Dec-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	HESPERIIDAE	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011		05-Apr-2011	MOVED
05-Mar-2013		07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED
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