Subspecies Borbo impar tetragraphus (Mabille, 1891)
- Carystus tetragraphus Mabille. P. 1891. Description d'Hespérides nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 35: LIX-LXXXVIII, CVI-CXXI CLXVIII-CCXXII [CXV].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♀, Ambon (as Amboine), Maluku, Indonesia (designated in original description)
Comment: Mabille in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; stated to be a male by Mabille and a female by Evans (1949). - Scobura bipunctata Elwes, H.J. & Edwards, J. 1897. A revision of the Oriental Hesperiidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 14(4): 101-324 pls 18-27 [issued 1897, dated 1898] [207 pl. 19 fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (Elwes & Edwards stated in the original description that they had a single specimen; originally in the Staudinger collection, may be in ZMB; described as a female, but recorded by Evans (1949) as a male), Palawan, Philippines (designated in original description).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. [436] (incorrectly gave the type locality as Batchian). - Caltoris laraca Swinhoe, C. 1907. New species of African and Indo-Malayan Hesperiidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 20: 430-436 [434].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (Swinhoe in the original description referred to a type), Woodlark Is., Papua (designated in original description). - Parnara bipunctata sidata Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 25(2–6): 9-79 pl. 1 [52].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Buru, Maluku, Indonesia (indicated in original description)
Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described. - Polytremis contigualis Rothschild, L.W. 1915. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera. Part 1. London : Hazell, Watson & Viney pp. 1-168. [41].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (Rothschild referred to his single specimen as a female, but Evans (1949) referred to it as a male; Rothschild in the original description indicated that he had only one specimen), Utakwa River, sea level, Irian Jaya (as Dutch New Guinea; indicated in original description). - Pelopidas impar lavella Evans, W.H. 1937. Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies. The Entomologist 70: 16-19, 38-40, 64-66, 81-83 [82].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Bougainville, Solomon Ils (included narrower localities of Rubiana, Alu, Savo and Vella Lavella; designated in original description).
Paralectotype(s) whereabouts unknown, probably BMNH 4♂
Comment: Evans in the original description indicated that he had five males and three females and did not mention a type although he did mention a type locality.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
Lambkin, T.A. & Knight, A.I. 1990. Butterflies recorded from Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 17(4): 101-112 [102] (compared Borbo impar tetragraphus (Mabille, 1891) with Borbo impar lavinia (Waterhouse, 1932) and gave distribution)
History of changes
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| 05-Apr-2011 | 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |