Subspecies Charaxes sempronius sempronius (Fabricius, 1793)

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Subspecies Charaxes sempronius sempronius (Fabricius, 1793)

Papilio sempronius Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Tom. 3(Pars 1) iv 487pp. [62].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, unknown (neither Fabricius nor Jones knew of a locality)
Comment: Fabricius in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Smiles, R.L. 1982. The taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Polyura Billberg (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 44(3): 115–237 [153] (referred to syntype(s)); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (the species was described from an illustration in Jones Icones of material in the Drury collection and is called a syntype as there is no evidence that Jones' illustration is from a single specimen).
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1938. Notes on Jones' Icones (Lepidoptera). With footnotes and appendix by Sir Edward B. Poulton. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London A 13(1–3): 9-17 [10] (did not mention the species but it is clear that this was one of the species taken to England by a collector other than Banks from Cook's first voyage; the specimen probably came from Cooktown but possibly from Botany Bay); Smiles, R.L. 1982. The taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Polyura Billberg (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 44(3): 115-237 [153] (did not comment on the type locality).
Jasia australis Swainson, W. 1833. Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged according to their natural affinities. 2nd Series. The Birds. London : Baldwin & Cradock; W. Wood; R. Havell Vol. 3 50 pp. pls 92-136. [Date published Mar. 1833: publication dated as 1832–1833, published Mar. 1833] [114 pl. 114].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Australia (designated in original description)
Comment: Swainson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Charaxes tyrtaeus Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1859. Lepidopterologische Fragmente. IV. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 3(12): 390-405 3 pls [399 pl. 9 fig. 3].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia (the Felders did not give a locality).
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀
Comment: the Felders in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described).
Type locality references:
Smiles, R.L. 1982. The taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Polyura Billberg (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 44(3): 115-237 [154] (referred to the locality of India on the label of the lectotype but corrected this to Australia).

Generic Combinations

Charaxes sempronius sempronius (Fabricius, 1793). —
Braby, M.F. 2010. The merging of taxonomy and conservation biology: a synthesis of Australian butterfly systematics (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 2707: 1-76 [Date published 3 Dec 2010] [64]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Another subspecies occurs on Lord Howe Is.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: S Gulfs
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal