Subspecies Euploea modesta lugens Butler, 1876

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• Euploea lugens Butler, A.G. 1876. On a collection of Lepidoptera from Port Moresby, New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 18: 240-249 [242].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Rh6560 ♂ (Butler in the original description stated that he had one male), Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (in original description)
  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. [30] (listed a type); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [518] (type information).
• Oranasma smithii Moore, F. 1883. A monograph of Limnaina and Euploeina, two groups of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the subfamily Euploeinae; with descriptions of new genera and species. Part II. Euploeina. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883(3): 253-324 pls 29-32 [publication date: Duncan, F.M. 1937. Dates of publication of the society's Proceedings, 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of "Proceedings" 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the "Transactions", 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London A 107: 71–84] [259].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, New Guinea (in original description)
  Comment: Moore in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens he had; the specimen(s) were originally in the H.G. Smith collection.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [4]
• 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]

 

Introduction

The occurrence of Euploea modesta Butler, 1866, within Australian limits has been confirmed based on a single male collected from Murray Island, Torres Strait; the specimen is closest to subspecies E. modesta lugens Butler, 1876, from mainland New Guinea (Meyer et al. 2004). Previous records of this species (De Baar 1988) belong to a specimen of E. crameri crameri Lucas, 1853 (in AM), erroneously labelled ‘Thursday Island’ (Meyer et al. 2004).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Nymphalidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 4 513-660 pp. [518]

Meyer, C.E., Brown, S.S. & Weir, R.P. 2004. The first record of Euploea modesta lugens Butler (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae) from Australia. Australian Entomologist 31: 177–180

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [518]

 

History of changes

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