Subspecies Delias ennia nigidius Miskin, 1884

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• 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 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), 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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011		05-Apr-2011	MOVED
28-Mar-2012		05-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)