Genus Erysichton Fruhstorfer, 1916

Museums

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• Erysichton Fruhstorfer, H. 1916. Revision der Gattung Nacaduba auf Grund der Morphologie der Generationsorgane. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 2(2): 103-140 pls 4, 5 [Date published 30 Aug 1916] [137] [this genus was overlooked by Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Suppl. 9: 1–509; Cowan, C.F. 1968. Annotationes Rhopalocerologicae. Berkhamsted, Great Britain : Clunbury Press 20 pp. (6)].

  Type species:

   Lycaena lineata Murray, 1874 by subsequent designation, see Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 13(4): 7-116 pl. 2 [102].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Kei Islands
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [556]

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [362]

Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture B 44(Suppl.): 1-102 [23]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [428]

Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 13(4): 7-116 pl. 2 [102]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Sep-2017		16-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)