Species Delias aestiva Butler, 1897
Mangrove Jezebel
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Delias mysis oestiva Butler, 1897 [as subspecies, but alternative spelling as oestiva]. —
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] [140] - Delias mysis aestiva Butler, 1897. —
Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Pieridae]. 119-190 pls 51-73 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [dated 1927] [126] (as subspecies)
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
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), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NT, Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Excoecaria ovalis Endl. [EUPHORBIACEAE] (larval food plant)).
General References
Braby, M.F. 2012. The taxonomy and ecology of Delias aestiva Butler, 1897 stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), a unique mangrove specialist of Euphorbiaceae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107: 697-720
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [283] (as Delias mysis aestiva description, distribution)
Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Pieridae]. 119-190 pls 51-73 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [dated 1927] [126] (as Delias mysis aestiva)
Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261-656. [Date published 23/January/1937] [554] (as Delias mysis oestiva, biology)
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] [49] (as Delias mysis oestiva, description, 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] [140] (as Delias mysis oestiva, description, distribution)
History of changes
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07-Mar-2024 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
04-Feb-2023 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 22-Dec-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby (ANU) |
13-May-2022 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
26-Feb-2021 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
04-Jun-2020 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
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