Subspecies Danaus affinis affinis (Fabricius, 1775)

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Subspecies Danaus affinis affinis (Fabricius, 1775)

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Papilio affinis Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [511].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH Rh6867 ♂, Cooktown, QLD (Australia, as nova Hollandia, was given in original description).
Paralectotype(s) BMNH Rh6868 ♂; BMNH Rh6867 ♂, Cooktown, QLD (Fabricius gave nova Hollandia in original description); BMNH Rh6868 1♂
Comment: Fabricius in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; described from the Banks collection; Zimsen (1964: 517) listed two males in the Banks collection; Waterhouse (1936: 25) gave type information, including accession numbers.
Type locality references:
Watkins, H.T.G. 1923. Notes on the butterflies of the Banks Collection. The Entomologist 56: 204-209 [205] (considered Cooktown, QLD, the probable type locality); Corbet, A.S. 1941. Observations on certain of the Fabrician names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera (Lepid.). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 10(6): 98-106 [100] (gave Cooktown, QLD, as the likely type locality).
Salatura nigrita Moore, F. 1883. A monograph of Limnaina and Euploeina, two groups of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the subfamily Euploeinae; with descriptions of new genera and species. Part I. Limnaina. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883(3): 201-252 pls 29-32 [publication date: Duncan, F.M. 1937. Dates of publication of the society's Proceedings, 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of "Proceedings" 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the "Transactions", 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London A 107: 71–84] [243].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH Rh6500 ♂, Australia (designated in original description)
Comment: Moore in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [25] (accession number and repository).
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp.

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 [23]

Distribution

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New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Common and widespread on Torres Strait islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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)