Subspecies Catochrysops amasea amasea Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914
- Catochrysops amasea 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] [103].
Type data:
Lectotype AM KL24557 ♂, Darnley Is., Murray Is. and Banks Is. (mentioned in original description).
Paralectotype(s) AM KL24558 ♀, Cape York, QLD (given by Peters)
Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned seven males and three females but did not mention a type.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. [29] (gave Cape York as the locality for the two types he listed but this was not a locality mentioned by Waterhouse & Lyell).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.
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)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
- Indonesia
- Irian Jaya
- Papua New Guinea
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
History of changes
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