Species Euploea climena (Stoll, 1782)
Climena Crow
Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement
- 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]
- Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [308]
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Ils), Papua New Guinea (Admiralty Ils, Bismarck Archipelago), Christmas Island (Indian Ocean).
Other Regions
Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
Extra Ecological Information
Larval food plants not recorded.
Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia
Euploea climena climena (Stoll, 1782)
Papilio climena Stoll, C. in Cramer, P. 1782. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title]. Vol. 4(32–34). Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild. pp. 165–252 pls 373–400 [issued 1782, dated 1775-1790] [207 pl. 389 figs E, F] [issued 1782, dated 1775–1790, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Opinion 516. Determination under the plenary powers of the relative precedence to be assigned to certain works on the Order Lepidoptera (Class Insecta) published in 1775 by Pieter Cramer, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller, Johann Christian Fabricius, Johann Casper Fuessly, and S.A. von Rottemburg respectively. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19: 1–44 [43]].
Type data: type status and whereabouts unknown sex unknown*; Stoll in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Type locality: Ambon, Indonesia (designated in original description).
General References
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. [535]
History of changes
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