Subspecies Delias aruna inferna Butler, 1871

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delias inferna Butler, A.G. 1871. Lepidoptera Exotica or Descriptions and Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 1(8) 59-66 pp., pls 23-25. [63 pl. 24 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Cape York Peninsula, QLD (Butler gave North Western Australia erroneously in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) BNHM ♂
  Comment: Butler in the original description mentioned both sexes Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [16] (records label data including type specimen identification, alterations and corrections to labels and type locality).

  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] [142] (stated that in Australia the species is restricted to Cape York [Peninsula]); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp.; 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. (in stating that in Australia the species is restricted to Cape York [Peninsula], Waterhouse & Lyell (1914) clearly implied that Butler's locality was wrong).
• Delias aruna irma Fruhstorfer, H. 1907. Neue Rhopaloceren aus dem Papua-Gebiet. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 21: 179-180 [179].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea (designated in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description described seven males and two females; the specimens were originally in Fruhstorfer collection; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [299] (implied they are now in the BMNH).

  Type locality references:

  Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.
• Delias aruna arovana Fruhstorfer, H. 1913. Neue indo-australische Rhopalocera. Entomologische Rundschau 30(21): 124-125 [124].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Rossel or Arova Insel (in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description mentioned both sexes; the type series was in the Fruhstorfer collection; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [299] (implied that the lectotype was in the BMNH).

  Type locality references:

  Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [299]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

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. [286] (biology)

Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261-656. [Date published 23/January/1937] [418] (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] [51]

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] [141] (description, distribution)

Wood, G.A. 1997. The life history of Delias aruna inferna Butler (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Pierinae). Queensland Naturalist 35: 20-23 [20] (biology)

Yata, O. 1985. Part 1 : Pieridae. pp. 206-438 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. II. Japan : Plapac 1-623 pls 1-162. [344] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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