Subspecies Euploea sylvester sylvester (Fabricius, 1793)

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• Papilio sylvester Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Tom. 3(Pars 1) iv 487pp. [41] [figured in Jones, W. 1783. Icones. [unpublished original watercolour paintings with added notes]. Located at Oxford University, Hope Department of Entomology 6 Vols. [approx. 1783–1818] (vol. 2, pt 3, pl. 67, fig. 2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Cooktown, QLD (Fabricius originally gave no locality)
  Comment: Fabricius in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, he described this species from the illustration in Jones Icones; 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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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] (sex of the type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1938. Notes on Jones' Icones (Lepidoptera). With footnotes and appendix by Sir Edward B. Poulton. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London A 13(1–3): 9–17 [12] (discussed Donovan's figures and stated that a single specimen was the basis of Jones' figure).

  Type locality references:

  Butler, A.G. 1866. A monograph of the diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the genus Euploea, with descriptions of many new species; founded principally on the specimens in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866(2): 268-302 pls 29, 30 [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] [290] (gave Australia as the locality for Euploea sylvester (Fabricius), but questioned the locality and the identity); Waterhouse, G.A. 1938. Notes on Jones' Icones (Lepidoptera). With footnotes and appendix by Sir Edward B. Poulton. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London A 13(1–3): 9-17 [10] (discussed the origin of the Australian material described by Fabricius in 1793; it came from Cook's first voyage collected by others besides Banks and almost certainly came from Cooktown, QLD).
• Euploea melpomene Butler, A.G. 1866. A monograph of the diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the genus Euploea, with descriptions of many new species; founded principally on the specimens in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866(2): 268-302 pls 29, 30 [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] [298] [introduced in a figure on p. 298, further described on p. 300].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Rh6857 ♂, Australia (in original description)
  Comment: Butler in the 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 tristis Butler, A.G. 1866. A monograph of the diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the genus Euploea, with descriptions of many new species; founded principally on the specimens in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866(2): 268-302 pls 29, 30 [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] [284].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH sex not stated, Anatom, Vanuatu (as Aneiteum in original description)
  Comment: Butler in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; 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. [49] (listed a single male in the BMNH); 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. (as the type material was stated by Butler to be in the BMNH, then this is accepted as evidence that it is a holotype).
• Euploea crithon 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)] [1038] [introduced in a key on p. 1038, further described on p. 1042].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM T 12357 1♂, Cape York, QLD (in original description); QM T 12358 1♂
  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] (located two syntypes in QM and gave type information).
• Euploea dardanus 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)] [1038] [introduced in a key on p. 1038, further described on p. 1041].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T 12359 ♂, Cape York, QLD (designated 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] (suggested there was probably only one specimen but called it a syntype); 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. (Waterhouse in manuscript notes on the Miskin collection made in 1910 noted that only one specimen was present, and this is accepted as evidence that there is a holotype).
• Euploea tristis scylla 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] [249].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Vanuatu (as New Hebrides, in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
• Euploea sylvester magnipunctata Carpenter, G.D.H. 1942. Revisional notes on Melanesian Euploea (Lep.) with descriptions of new subspecies and forms. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 11(9): 127-140 [132] [introduced as Euploea (Stictoploea) sylvester magnipunctata Carpenter, 1942].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂ (Carpenter in the original description designated a holotype), Ureparapara, Banks Ils, Vanuatu (in original description).
  Paratype(s) OUM 4♂, Banks Is., Vanuatu.

 

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 [6]
• 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

Dauan Island, Torres Strait.

Australian Endemic.

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

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. [311] (biology)

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. [523]

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]

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] (description, aberrations, distribution)

 

History of changes

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