Genus Cephrenes Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

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• Cephrenes 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] [206] [replacement name for Corone Mabille, 1878].

  Type species:

   Corone ismenoides Mabille, 1878 (=Cephrenes sperthias (Felder, 1862)) by indication.
• Corone Mabille, P. 1878. Descriptions de Lépidoptères nouveaux du groupe des Hespérides. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques 2(190): 205 [205] [junior homonym of Corone Kaup, 1829 (Aves) and Corone Morris, 1837 (Aves)); Neave, S.A. 1939–1940. Nomenclator Zoologicus: A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the End of 1935. London : The Zoological Society of London Vol. 1–4 (840) homonymy].

  Type species:

   Corone ismenoides Mabille, 1878 by subsequent designation, see Kirby, W.F. 1880. Lepidoptera. Zoological Records 1878 15: 189 [189]; Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [126] (C. ismenoides is a junior subjective synonym of C. augiades sperthias (Felder)).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Evans, W.H. 1934. Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies. The Entomologist 67: 231-234 [233]

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