Species Euploea leucostictos (Gmelin, 1790)
Type data:
Lectotype NMI ♀, Ambon (locality of 'extra Europam' was given in original description)
Comment: Gmelin in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.Type locality references:
Corbet, A.S. 1947. Papers on Malaysian Rhopalocera: II. The type of Papilio leucostictos Gmelin, 1790. The Entomologist 80: 228-229 1 pl. [228] (discussed type and type locality stating that Amboina was the type locality and that authors in the past who gave Java were in error).- Euploea usipetes Hewitson, W.C. 1858. Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. London : John van Voorst Vol. 2(25-28). [issued 1858, dated 1857–1861; publication dates] [24 pl. 12 fig. 4].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH Rh6762 ♂, New Guinea (in original description)
Comment: Hewitson in the original description indicated that he had several specimens; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [510] (gave specimen information although he did not call it a type; Kirby, W.F. 1894. Description of a new species of Hirdapa, Moore, from Dinner Island, New Guinea, in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 13: 166–167 [167] (referred to a type but gave no information on it).Type locality references:
Kirby, W.F. 1894. Description of a new species of Hirdapa, Moore, from Dinner Island, New Guinea, in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 13: 166-167 [167] (confirmed Hewitson's type locality). - Euploea hippias Miskin, W.H. 1890. A revision of the Australian species of Euploea, with synonymic notes, and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(4): 1037-1046 [publication date: Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925)] [1037] [introduced in a key on p. 1037, further described on p. 1040].
Type data:
Syntype(s) QM T.12362 1♂, Cape York, QLD (in original description)
Comment: Miskin in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; 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 [521] (referred to this specimen as a syntype, but suggested there was probably only one original specimen, also gave type information). - Hirdapa rezia Kirby, W.F. 1894. Description of a new species of Hirdapa, Moore, from Dinner Island, New Guinea, in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 13: 166-167 [166].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH Rh6763 1♂, Samarai, Louisiade Outliers, Papua New Guinea (as Dinner Island in original description); BMNH Rh6764 1♀
Comment: Kirby in the original description mentioned both sexes; 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. [43] (listed both male and female types); 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. (listing of types is not accepted as a lectotype designation). - Euploea usipetes astrifera Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Danaidae]. pp. 265-272 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [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] [266].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Papua New Guinea (as British and German New Guinea in original description)
Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description referred to both sexes. - Euploea usipetes albodiscalis Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Danaidae]. pp. 265-272 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [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] [266].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀, Aru Is., Maluku, Indonesia (designated in original description)
Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description referred to specimens mentioned by Ribbe, and used the plural venus signs.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [510]
- Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Dauan Island, Torres Strait. Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya, Kei Islands, Maluku), Papua New Guinea.
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 [56]
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)
Kirby, W.F. 1894. A hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera. Butterflies. Vol. 1. pp. i-lxxiv 1-261 in Bowdler-Sharpe, R. (ed.). Allen's Naturalist's Library. London : W.H. Allen. [25 pl. 6 fig. 2] (as Hirdapa rezia Kirby, 1894, description, first illustration)
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] [25] (as Euploea usipetes hippias Miskin, 1889 [sic], description, distribution)
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Nov-2016 | Euploea Fabricius, 1807 | 01-Nov-2016 | MODIFIED | |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 05-Mar-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED |