Subspecies Catochrysops panormus papuanus Tite, 1959

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• Catochrysops panormus papuana Tite, G.E. 1959. The genus Catochrysops Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae. The Entomologist 92(1157): 201-212 2 pls [Date published October 1959] [208].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Rh16437 ♂ (Tite in the original description designated a holotype), Kumusi River, Papua New Guinea (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) BMNH Rh16438 1♀, Kumusi River, Papua New Guinea.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea, occurs on some of the Torres Strait Ils, QLD.

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), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

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. [417]

Lambkin, T.A. & Knight, A.I. 1990. Butterflies recorded from Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 17(4): 101-112 [111] (recorded from southern Torres Strait Islands)

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [454]

 

History of changes

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