Genus Hypolimnas Hübner, 1819
- Hypolimnas Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [45] [published with two original spellings, the Latin name 'Hypolimnades' and in the list of nominal species as Hipolimnas; 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 (227) discussed the identity of the first reviser and concluded that Hübner by using the sole spelling Hypolimnas in Hübner, J. 1821. Index exoticorum Lepidopterorum, in folis 244 a Jacobo Hübner hactenus effigiatorum; adjectis denominationibus emendatis, tam communioribus quam exactioribus. Augsburg [8] pp. ([5]) was the first reviser, but Art. 24, ICZN 1985 requires that both names be cited with one name chosen to have precedence over the other, as such, Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst [vii] 690 pp. (224) is the first reviser giving precedence to Hypolimnas Hübner [1819] over Hipolimnas Hübner, [1819]].
Type species:
Papilio pipleis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. A contribution to systematic nomenclature. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 91-293 [194] (mentioned both spellings of the generic name); 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 [227] (discussed the status of the type species). - Esoptria Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [45] [Esoptria Hübner, [1819] and Hypolimnas Hübner, [1819] were published simultaneously, Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst [vii] 690 pp. (224) synonymised the names and as first reviser gave precedence to Hypolimnas Hübner, [1819] over Esoptria Hübner, [1819] (Art. 24, ICZN 1985)].
Type species:
Papilio bolina Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. A contribution to systematic nomenclature. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 91-293 [168]. - Diadema Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [135] [junior objective synonym of Esoptria Hübner, 1819 and junior homonym of Diadema Gray, 1825 (Echinodermata); 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 (143) discussed earlier homonymies].
Type species:
Papilio bolina Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Blanchard, C.E. in Castelnau, F.L. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés Vol. 3. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Orthoptères, Neuroptères, Hemiptères, Hymenoptères, Lépidoptères et Diptères, avec une Introduction par M. Brullé. Paris : P. Duménil 672 pls 71. [451]. - Euralia Westwood, J.O. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1850. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 pp. 251-326 pls 53-55, 63, 65, 66. [issued 1850, dated 1850-1852; publication date] [281].
Type species:
Papilio dubius Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. A contribution to systematic nomenclature. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 91-293 [173]. - Eucalia Felder, C. 1861. Ein neues Lepidopteron aus der Familie Nymphaliden und seine Stellung im natürlichen Systeme, begründet aus der Synopse der ürbrigen Gattungen. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 28(3): 1-50 1 pl. [25].
Type species:
Diadema anthedon Doubleday, 1845 by subsequent designation, see Hemming, F. 1939. Notes on the generic nomenclature of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera I. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 8(7): 133-138 [134].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Miller, L.D. & Brown, F.M. 1981. A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. Memoir No. 2. Florida : Lepidopterists' Society vii 280 pp. [175]
- Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 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. [246]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
Australian Region
- Australia
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal
- East Timor
- Indonesia
- Aru Islands
- Irian Jaya
- Kei Islands
- Maluku
- West Timor
- Marshall Islands
- New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Vanuatu
- Western Samoa
Nearctic Region
Neotropical Region
Oriental Region
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Taiwan
Palaearctic Region
General References
Ackery, P.R. 1988. Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 33: 95-203 [163] (bibliography)
Fruhstorfer, H. 1912. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Nymphalidae]. 453-536, 545-560 pls 115, 119, 123-138 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [Date published 1911-16] [publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279] [542]
Vane-Wright, R.I., Ackery, P.R. & Smiles, R.L. 1977. The polymorphism, mimicry, and host plant relationships of Hypolimnas butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 9: 285-297 [285] (biology)
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] [83]
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