Genus Cethosia Fabricius, 1807

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cethosia Fabricius, J.C. 1807. Systema glossatorum. In Illiger, Die neueste Gattungs-Eintheilung der Schmetterlinge aus den Linnéischen Gattungen Papilio und Sphinx. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 6: 279-289 [280].

  Type species:

   Papilio cydippe Linnaeus, 1767 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [440]; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Opinion 501. Validation under the Plenary Powers of the specific name adippe as published in the combination Papilio adippe in 1775 in the anonymous work by Dennis & Schiffer-Müller commonly known as the Wiener Verzeichniss to be the specific name for the high brown fritillary and validation under the same powers of a neotype species (Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 18: 1-64 3 pls [1] (validated the name Papilio cydippe Linnaeus, 1767); 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 [106] (discussed selection of the type species).
• Alazonia Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [46] [junior objective synonym of Cethosia Fabricius, 1807].

  Type species:

   Papilio cydippe Linnaeus, 1767 by subsequent designation, see Hemming, F. 1934. Notes on nine genera of butterflies. The Entomologist 67: 37-38 [37].
• Eugramma Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Stockholm : Typis Gadelianis 4 unnumbered + 138 pp. [In Latin] [78] [junior objective synonym of Cethosia; replacement name for Cethosia, introduced on the basis of the invalidity of the type species Papilio cydippe Linnaeus, 1767, a junior homonym of Papilio cydippe Linnaeus, 1761, but the Commission validated the name Papilio cydippe Linnaeus, 1767 under its Plenary Powers in Opinion 501, 1958, thus making Cethosia an available name].

  Type species:

   Papilio cydippe Linnaeus, 1767 by indication.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Miskin, W.H. 1891. A synonymical catalogue of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera (Butterflies) of Australia with full bibliographical reference: including descriptions of some new species. Annals of the Queensland Museum 1: [i]-xx 1-[93] [i]-ix [37]
• 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 [106]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• East Timor
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Kei Islands
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
  • Java

General References

Ackery, P.R. 1984. Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London, no. 11. Part 1 Systematics. pp. 9-21 in Vane-Wright, R.I. & Ackery, P.R. (eds). The Biology of Butterflies. London : Academic Press 429 pp. [18]

Ackery, P.R. 1988. Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 33: 95-203 [137] (extensive bibliography)

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [619]

 

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	MOVED