Subspecies Catopsilia gorgophone gorgophone (Boisduval, 1836)

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Subspecies Catopsilia gorgophone gorgophone (Boisduval, 1836)

Yellow Migrant

Callidryas gorgophone Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1836. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Géneral des Lépidoptères. Paris : (forms part of Roret's Suites à Buffon) Vol. 1 xii 690 pp., pls 24. [632].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande in original description)
Comment: Boisduval in the original description mentioned a series of specimens in his own collection, MNHP, and the collections of Serville and Lacordaire.
Callidryas hinda Butler, A.G. 1870. Lepidoptera Exotica or Descriptions and Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 1(4) 25-32 pp., pls 10-12. [31 pl. 12 figs 9, 10].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (Butler in the original description mentioned a type), Queensland (designated in original description)
Comment: Gabriel, A.G. 1932. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the Hill Museum. London : John Bale, Sons & Danielsson 40 pp. [7] (listed a holotype in the Joicey collection but gave the sex as male); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [22] (located the holotype female in the BMNH).
Type locality references:
Gabriel, A.G. 1932. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the Hill Museum. London : John Bale, Sons & Danielsson 40 pp.; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)