Species Euploea algea (Godart, 1819)
Mournful Crow
Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement
- De Baar, M. 1991. Euploea core corinna (Macleay) and Euploea algea amycus Miskin (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) form hybrids within Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 18(1): 45-47 [45] (stated that specimens attributed to amycus Miskin are well within the range of variation found in violetta Butler from New Guinea)
- Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519-528 [520]
- 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. [248]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Guam, Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Oriental Region, apparently absent from the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Ils.
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Distribution References
- Lambkin, T.A. 2016. First Australian records of Euploea wallacei melia Fruhstorfer, 1904 and Euploea stephensii jamesi Butler, 1876 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae) from Dauan island, Torres Strait, Queensland, with notes on the aggregation habits of 'Euploea' Fabricius species near flowering mangroves. Australian Entomologist 43(2): 55–68
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
Extra Ecological Information
Larval food plants not recorded from Australia, but in mainland New Guinea, larvae feed on Ficus spp. (Moraceae) Ichnocarpus frutescens (Apocynaceae) Cynanchum spp. (Asclepiadaceae), all of which occur on Cape York Peninsula.
Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia
Euploea algea algea (Godart, 1819)
Danais algea Godart, J.B. 1819. Zoologie. Vol. 9 Pt 1 pp. 13–328 in Latreille, P.A. & Godart, J.B. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. On the dates of publication of the natural history portions of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 577–582; Cowan, C.F. 1968. [publication dates] Enc. Méth. 9. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4(7): 307–311, 390 [310]; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1899. On the dates of the Encyclopédie Méthodique: additional note. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899(3): 595] [178] [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1899. On the dates of the Encyclopédie Méthodique: additional note. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899(3): 595; Cowan, C.F. 1968. [publication dates] Enc. Méth. 9. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4(7): 307–311, 390 [310]; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. On the dates of publication of the natural history portions of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 577–582].
Type data: syntypes whereabouts unknown ♂*; Godart in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [513] 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. (Parson's reference to a holotype is not interpreted as a lectotype designation as he knew of no specimen).
Type locality: Ambon (as l'ile d'Amboine), Maluku, Indonesia (designated in original description).
General References
Carpenter, G.D.H. 1953. The genus Euploea (Lep. Danaidae) in Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia and Australia. A zoo-geographical study. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 28(1): 1-184 pl. 1-9 [5]
Morishita, K. 1981. Danainae. pp. 441-623 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. Tokyo : Palpac Co. Vol. 2 623 pp. [553]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Nov-2016 | Euploea Fabricius, 1807 | 02-Nov-2016 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 05-Mar-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED |