Subspecies Euploea darchia niveata (Butler, 1875)
- Calliploea niveata Butler, A.G. 1875. Contributions towards a knowledge of the Rhopalocera of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 23(1): 1-10 [2].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Rh6729 ♂ (Butler in the original description mentioned a type), Queensland and Australia (in original description).
Paratype(s) BMNH 1♀ (Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [25] stated that in BMNH there was a female with the same accession number not marked as a type)
Comment: Riley, N.D. & Gabriel, A.G. 1925. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum Part II. Danaidae. London : British Museum 55 pp. [35] (listed this male specimen as a type).Type locality references:
Butler, A.G. 1878. On the butterflies in the collection of the British Museum hitherto referred to the genus Euploea of Fabricius. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 14: 290-303 [296] (only three years after original description, recorded localities as Cape York and Fitzroy Is., QLD, but this may have been from subsequent accessions); Riley, N.D. & Gabriel, A.G. 1925. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum Part II. Danaidae. London : British Museum 55 pp. - Calliploea waterhousei Bryk, F. 1937. Family Danainae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 78 pp. 1–432; Corrigenda Pt 80 pp. 641–642. [349].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM sex unstated, unknown (no locality was given but species was recorded from N QLD)
Comment: Bryk in the original use of the name referred to a description of an aberration by Waterhouse & Lyell on p. 23; 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. (this specimen has not been traced but should be in AM; the original mention by Bryk, although referring to an aberration used the term form, thus making the name available).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bryk, F. 1937. Family Danainae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 78 pp. 1–432; Corrigenda Pt 80 pp. 641–642. [349]
- 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
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [314] (description, distribution)
Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [23] (as Euploea hyems niveata, description, distribution)
History of changes
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