Species Dispar compacta (Butler, 1882)
Barred Skipper, Dispar Skipper
- Telesto compacta Butler, A.G. 1882. On a small collection of Lepidoptera from Melbourne. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 9: 84-103 [87].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (Butler in the original description indicated that he had one specimen), Melbourne, VIC (designated in original publication)
Comment: Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(3–4): 107–125 [115] (referred to a holotype). - Telesto scepticalis Rosenstock, R. 1885. Notes on Australian Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 376-385, 421-443 [379 pl. 11 fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ (Rosenstock in the original paper made the general statement that he had single specimens unless otherwise stated), southern Australia (specimen was from Dr T.P. Lucas of Melbourne, VIC).Type locality references:
Rosenstock, R. 1885. Notes on Australian Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 376-385, 421-443 [376] (Rosenstock's reference to South Australia indicated southern Australia not the state of SA); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115] (gave Melbourne, VIC, as type locality, but Waterhouse (1936: 41) noted the label 'Melbourne' was an adddition by Evans to Rosenstock's specimen); Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [213] (gave Melbourne, VIC, as the type locality). - Hesperilla melissa Mabille. P. 1891. Description d'Hespérides nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 35: LIX-LXXXVIII, CVI-CXXI CLXVIII-CCXXII [LXXXI].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW (designated in original description)
Comment: Mabille in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls [213] (gave sex and repository of type).Subsequent designation references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115] (referred to a holotype); 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 Waterhouse's (1937) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)). - Hesperilla atrax Mabille. P. 1891. Description d'Hespérides nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 35: LIX-LXXXVIII, CVI-CXXI CLXVIII-CCXXII [LXXXI].
Type data:
Holotype ZMHB, Australia (as Australie)
Comment: Mabille in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112–172 [125] (whereabouts of type specimen).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Kroombit Tops and Bunya Mountains, QLD, to Wilsons Promontory and west to Dartmoor, VIC.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Gahnia sp. [CYPERACEAE]; Poa spp. [POACEAE]; Poa tenera J.D.Hook. [POACEAE]).
Extra Ecological Information
Adults recorded January to April.
General References
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [133] (biology)
Johnson, S.J., Valentine, P.S. & Lane, D.A. 1994. Notes on life histories and biology of the species of Neohesperilla Waterhouse and Lyell (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Australian Entomologist 21(2): 55-59 [55]
Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [124] (synonymy)
Miskin, W.H. 1891. A synonymical catalogue of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera (Butterflies) of Australia with full bibliographical reference: including descriptions of some new species. Annals of the Queensland Museum 1: [i]-xx 1-[93] [i]-ix [93, addenda] (synonymy of compacta and scepticalis)
Tindale, N.B. 1953. New Rhopalocera, and a list of species from the Grampian Mountains, western Victoria. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 11(1): 43-68 pls 18-21 [59] (biology)
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] [197] (description)
Waterhouse, G.A. & Turner, R.E. 1904. Notes on Hesperidae described by Mabille and reputed to be Australian. Victorian Naturalist 21(8): 109-110 [110]
Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893(1): 3-132 [publication date: < 0107>] [75] (considered
History of changes
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| 07-Mar-2024 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 04-Feb-2023 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 22-Dec-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby (ANU) |
| 13-May-2022 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 26-Feb-2021 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 04-Jun-2020 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 06-Sep-2017 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 06-Sep-2017 | HESPERIIDAE | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Lyn Randall |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
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