Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• 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] [52]
• Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261-656. [Date published 23/January/1937] [489]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

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
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Notothixos leiophyllus K.Schum. [SANTALACEAE]).

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Delias ennia ennia (Wallace, 1867)

Thyca ennia Wallace, A.R. 1867. On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4(3): 301–406 pls 6–9 [355 pl. 7 fig. 4].
Type data: lectotype BMNH ♂*; Wallace in the original description mentioned both sexes, he described specimens in his own collection.
Subsequent designation: Butler, A.G. 1897. Revision of the Pierine butterflies of the genus Delias. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 143–167 [157] (stated that the type was in the Hewitson collection); Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261–656 [484] (referred to a holotype male 'ex coll. Hewitson'); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [304] (referred to a holotype in the BMNH); 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. (interpret Butler's (1897) incorrect reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
Type locality: Waigiou, Indonesia (designated in original description).

General References

Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261-656. [Date published 23/January/1937] [482]

Yagishita, A., Nakano, S. & Morita, S. in Nishiyama, Y. (ed.) 1993. An Illustrated List of the Genus Delias Hübner of the World. Tokyo : Khepera Publishers Vol. 1 (text) xv 384 pp.; Vol. 2 [xi] 409 vi pp. 207 pls. [in Japanese] [333]

History of changes

• Delias nigidius Miskin, W.H. 1884. Descriptions of new Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 32(1): 93-96 [93].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM T12344 1♀, Rockingham Bay (Cardwell), QLD; QM T12345 1♀; whereabouts unknown ♀, (in original description Miskin gave both Rockingham Bay and Johnstone River)
  Comment: Miskin in the original description indicated that he had several females; he said the description was of a male but on the same page said he only had females; Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261–656 [490] (mentioned types in the QM); Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [520] (found two syntypes in the QM and gave type information); unknown number of specimens.

  Type locality references:

  Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261-656. [Date published 23/January/1937]; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519-528 [520] (gave Cardwell, QLD, as the locality of the extant syntypes).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

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. [284] (biology)

Quick, W.N.B. 1982. Delias ennia nigidius Miskin — its host plant and some early stages. Victorian Entomologist 12(4): 40-41 [40]

Quick, W.N.B. 1982. Early stages of Delias ennia nigidius Miskin. Victorian Entomologist 12(5): 52-53 [52]

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] [52]

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)

History of changes

• Delias ennia tindalii Joicey, J.J. & Talbot, G. 1926. New forms of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Encyclopédie Entomologique B III Lepidoptera 2: 1-14 [dated 1926–27] [4] [replacement name; replacement name for Delias ennia dorothea Tindale, 1923; the publication date followed in this catalogue for Delias ennia tindalii is 1926, which is the date commonly quoted in references including The Imperial Bureau of Entomology. 1927. Lepidoptera. Zoological Record 1926 63: 6–135, 243–257 (65, 253) and Talbot, G. 1932. Familia Pieridae I. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 53 pp. 1–320. (114); however, it is noted that the title page of Encycl. Entomol. Ser. B III Lepidoptera 2 is dated 1926–27].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (the holotype is the holotype of Delias ennia dorothea Tindale as the name is a replacement name), Coen River, QLD.
• Delias ennia dorothea Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [349 pl. 10 fig. 25] [junior homonym; junior primary homonym of Delias dorothea Mitis, 1893].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I13652 ♂ (Tindale in the original description mentioned a type), Coen River, QLD (designated in original description).

  Type locality references:

  Moulds, M.S. 1990. Australian Cicadas. Kensington : New South Wales University Press 217 pp. [187] (discussed the locality represented by W.D. Dodd's Coen River labels, concluding that it represented the goldfields in the McIlwraith Range).
• Delias ennia theodora Tindale, N.B. 1927. A new butterfly of the genus Papilio from Arnhem Land. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3(3): 339-341 fig. 106 [341] [replacement name for Delias ennia dorothea Tindale, 1923; junior objective synonym of Delias ennia tindalii Joicey & Talbot, 1926; Tindale was unaware that Joicey & Talbot had already replaced dorothea with tindalii in 1926; it is noted that Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 3(3) is dated 30th June 1927].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (the holotype is the holotype of Delias ennia dorothea Tindale as the name is a replacement name), Coen River, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

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. [285] (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] [52] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Delias ennia tindali Joicey & Talbot, 1926, description, distribution)

History of changes