Subspecies Cethosia penthesilea paksha Fruhstorfer, 1905

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• Cethosia penthesilea paksha Fruhstorfer, H. 1905. Neue Cethosia Formen. Entomologische Zeitschrift 19(19): 105-106 [105].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 7♂ 2♀, Wetar Is., Timor Is., Indonesia, Port Darwin, NT (designated in original description); whereabouts unknown 1♂; whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description mentioned a series of specimens from several localities.
• Cethosia penthesilea doddi Stichel, H. 1938. Familia Nymphalidae I. Subfamilies: Dioninae, Anetiinae, Apaturinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 86. 1-374 pp. [133] [name given to an aberrant Darwin specimen of Cethosia penthesilea paksha Fruhstorfer, 1905 by Oberthür, C. 1911. Explication des planches. Études de Lépidoptèrologie comparée. Rennes : Oberthür Vol. 5(2) (planches) (325, pl 68, fig. 650); raised to subspecies rank by Stichel in 1938].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Stichel referred to Oberthür's text; Oberthür did not describe his aberration but did illustrate it, he did not indicate the number of specimens on which the illustration was based), Port Darwin (in original description).
  Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown
  Comment: Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Satyridae, Nymphalidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. [16] (stated that Oberthür had two specimens but the second was not as aberrant as the first; the first specimen was the illustrated one and this is taken as evidence that one specimen was illustrated).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1972. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 498 pp. 41 pls. [296]
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 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. [246]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [404] (biology)

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Nymphalidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 4 513-660 pp. [570] (distribution)

Hall, M.C. 1981. Notes on the life history of Cesthosia penthesilea paksha Fruhstorfer (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 7(6): 89-90 [89]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [87]

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] [62]

 

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