Subspecies Eirmocides absimilis absimilis (C. Felder, 1862)

Museums

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• Holochila absimilis Felder, C. 1862. Verzeichniss der von den Naturforschern der k.k. Fregatte Novara gesammelten Macrolepidopteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 473-496 [490].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Ash Island, NSW (designated in orignal description; now part of Kooragang Is., Newcastle, NSW)
  Comment: C. Felder in the original description mentioned both sexes.
• Candalides persimilis Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 122-125 [123].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL16496 ♂, Mackay, N.Q. (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL 16496, KL 16500, KL 16494 2♂1♀1♂2♀1♂, Mackay, N.Q.; AM KL16496 2♂ 1♀, Mackay, QLD; AM KL16500 1♂ 3♀, Mackay, QLD; AM KL16494 1♂, Mackay, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description mentioned a type series, thus these must have been syntypes, other specimens mentioned being excluded from the type series; Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [30] (type information).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1942. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 122-125 [123] (mentioned Mackay as the locality of the type series); Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1972. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 498 pp. 41 pls. [215]

Generic Combinations

• Eirmocides absimilis absimilis (C. Felder, 1862).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Alectryon coriaceus (Benth.) Radlk. [SAPINDACEAE] Beach Alectryon; Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk. [SAPINDACEAE] Beach Tamarind; Atalaya salicifolia (A.DC.) Blume [SAPINDACEAE] Brush Whitewood; Brachychiton populneus (Schott & Endl.) R.Br. [MALVACEAE] Kurrajong; Millettia megasperma (F.Muell.) Benth. [FABACEAE] Native Wisteria; Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre [FABACEAE] Pongamia Tree; Erythrina sp. [FABACEAE]; Flagellaria indica L. [FLAGELLARIACEAE]; Wisteria chinensis Siebold [FABACEAE]; Robinia pseudoacacia L. [FABACEAE]; Macadamia integrifolia Maiden & Betche [PROTEACEAE]; Brachychiton acerifolius Macarthur & C.Moore [STERCULIACEAE]; Cassia fistula L. [CAESALPINIACEAE]; Koelreuteria elegans (Seem.) A.C.Sm. [SAPINDACEAE]; Harpullia hillii F.Muell. [SAPINDACEAE]; Castanospermum australe Hook. [FABACEAE]).

General References

Braby, M.F. 2008. Taxonomic review of Candalides absimilis (C. Felder, 1862) and C. margarita (Semper, 1879) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with descriptions of two new subspecies. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 24: 33-54

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