Genus Cepora Billberg, 1820

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cepora Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Stockholm : Typis Gadelianis 4 unnumbered + 138 pp. [In Latin] [76].

  Type species:

   Papilio coronis Cramer, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. A contribution to systematic nomenclature. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 91-293 [138]; 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 [105] (discussed the precedence of Papilio nerissa Fabricius, 1775 over Papilio coronis Cramer, [1775], <0019> [4]) (= Papilio nerissa Fabricius, 1775.).
• Acraea Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [93] [a junior homonym of Acraea Fabricius, 1807 (Nymphalidae)].

  Type species:

   Papilio nerissa Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Hemming, F. 1939. Notes on the generic nomenclature of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera I. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 8(7): 133-138 [135].
• Huphina Moore, F. 1881. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 1(2–4) pp. 41-190 pls 19-71. [issued 1881, dated 1880-1881] [136] [junior objective synonym of Cepora Billberg, 1820].

  Type species:

   Papilio coronis Cramer, 1775 by original designation (= junior synonym of Papilio nerissa Fabricius, 1775).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Pieridae. pp. 240-242, 358-359 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [242]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [292] (distribution)

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] [145] (as Huphina, biology)

Yata, O. 1985. Part 1 : Pieridae. pp. 206-438 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. II. Japan : Plapac 1-623 pls 1-162. [404] (description, key to species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011		05-Apr-2011	MOVED
28-Mar-2012		05-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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