Subspecies Euploea sylvester pelor Doubleday, 1847

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• Euploea pelor Doubleday, E. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1847. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 1 pp. xii 1-18 pls A 1-4. [issued 1847, dated 1846-1850, publication dates] [88 pl. 11 fig. 1] [illustrated in pl. 11, fig. 1, with name, published early May 1847, and described on p. 88, published 9th July, 1847; incorrect subsequent spelling of Euploea as Euplaea].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Rh6856 ♂, NW Australia (in original description)
  Comment: original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [29] (type information).
• Euploea sylvester dardanoides Carpenter, 1953.

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL00737 ♂, Darwin, NT (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL00738 1♀, Darwin, NT; whereabouts unknown 4♂
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description indicated that they had five males and three females; Carpenter, G.D.H. 1953. The genus Euploea (Lep. Danaidae) in Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia and Australia. A zoo-geographical study. Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 28(1): 1–184 pl. 1–9 [6] (used the name as an available species group name); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [507] (also used the name as an available species group name).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf
  • Western Australia: N 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. [312] (description, distribution)

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. [524]

Meyer, C. 1997. Notes on the life history and variations in adult forms of Euploea sylvester pelor Doubleday (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae). Australian Entomologist 24: 73-77 [73]

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] [26] (description, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED