Species Deudorix diovis Hewitson, 1863

Museums

Regional Maps

• Deudorix diovis Hewitson, W.C. 1863. Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. London : John van Voorst Vol. 3(45–48). [issued 1863, dated 1862-1866; publication date] [20 pl. 7 figs 10-12].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Brisbane, QLD. Hewitson originally gave Australia
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description mentioned and figured both sexes in the Hewitson collection; Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp. [146] (listed four specimens in the Hewitson collection).

  Type locality references:

  Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp.; Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [420] (gave the label data of the lectotype and stated that Hewitson's material must have come from near Brisbane; the lectotype was collected by Frederick Strange; Whittell, H.M. 1947. Frederick Strange. Australian Zoologist 11: 96–114 [96] gave Strange's collecting localities).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk. [SAPINDACEAE] Beach Tamarind; Elaeocarpus angustifolius Blume [ELAEOCARPACEAE] Blue Quandong; Buckinghamia celsissima F.Muell. [PROTEACEAE] Buckinghamia Silky Oak; Stenocarpus sinuatus Endl. [PROTEACEAE] White Silky Oak; Litchi chinensis Sonner. [SAPINDACEAE]; Alectryon sp. [SAPINDACEAE]; Harpullia pendula F.Muell. [SAPINDACEAE]; Harpullia ramiflora Radlk. [SAPINDACEAE]; Connarus conchocarpus F.Muell. [CONNARACEAE]; Pittosporum undulatum Vent. [PITTOSPORACEAE]; Macadamia sp. [PROTEACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Litchi chinensis (Sapindaceae) is introduced.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [517]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [385]

Lane, D.A. 1994. Distribution and foodplant records for Deudorix butterflies in northern Queensland (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Victorian Entomologist 24: 20 [20] (biology)

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [404]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [264]

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] [195]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [419]

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] [132]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Mar-2013		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
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