Subspecies Delias argenthona fragalactea (Butler, 1869)

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• Thyca fragalactea Butler, A.G. 1869. Descriptions of four new species of diurnal Lepidoptera of the genus Thyca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 4: 242-244 [243].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, North coast of Australia (in original description)
  Comment: Butler in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.

  Type locality references:

  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] [138] (did not give a type locality but applied the name to the population in NT and NW WA).

Generic Combinations

• Delias argenthona fragalactea (Butler, 1869).

Introduction

Reinstated as valid subspecies (Braby 2010).

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE] Needle-leaf Mistletoe; Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE] Orange Mistletoe; Amyema miquelli (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe; Muellerina celastroides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Decaisnina signata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe curvata Blume [LORANTHACEAE]; Diplatia furcata Barlow [LORANTHACEAE]; Santalum lanceolatum R.Br. [SANTALACEAE]).

General References

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]

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