Species Euploea resarta Butler, 1876
- Euploea resarta Butler, A.G. 1876. On a collection of Lepidoptera from Port Moresby, New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 18: 240-249 [241].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Rh6559 ♀ (Butler in the original description stated that he had one female), Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (in original paper)
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. [43] (listed a single male); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [520] (type information).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 [298] (confirmed the type locality). - Euploea batesii belia 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] [22 figs 10, 11].
Type data:
Lectotype AM KL 00385 ♂, Cape York QLD (Waterhouse & Lyell (1914) recorded Cape York, Darnley Is. and Murray Is., QLD, in original description).
Paralectotype(s) AM KL00386 1♀, Cape York, QLD; whereabouts unknown ♂
Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned two males and six females.Type locality references:
Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [19] (gave the locality of the 'holotype' as Cape York, QLD). - Crastia funerea 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 [298].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH Rh6557 ♀, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (designated in original description)
Comment: Butler in the original description indicated that he had both sexes. - Crastia squalida 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 [298].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH Rh6558 ♂, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (designated in original description)
Comment: Butler in the original description mentioned both sexes. - Euploea resarta turbonia Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Danaidae]. pp. 225-256 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] [234].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Finschafen and Simbang, Papua New Guinea (in original description)
Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description mentioned several specimens. - Euploea funerea murena Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. Appendix to Danaidae. pp. 273-278 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 9. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag viii+1197 pp., 177 pls. [276].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Yule Is., Papua New Guinea (designated in original description)
Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens he had.
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 [5]
- Wood, G.A. 1987. The butterflies of Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 14(3): 39-42 [39] (synonymy of Euploea resarta Butler, 1876 and Euploea batesii belia Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914)
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Euploea batesii resarta Butler, 1876. —
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 [88]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
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. [308] (as Euploea batesii belia, description, distribution)
Lambkin, T.A. 2013. A revision of the Euploea batesii C. & R. Felder, 1865 'complex' (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae) in mainland Papua New Guinea and Australia, including its biology and biogeography. Australian Entomologist 40: 187-218 (full taxonomic history; removed from synonymy with Euploea batesii)
History of changes
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