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Species Eurema drona (Horsfield, 1829)

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Generic Combinations

  • Eurema drona (Horsfield, 1829).

 

Introduction

Irungbam et al. (2023) revised the taxonomy of Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780), which is distributed throughout most of the Old World tropics, including Africa and Madagascar. The authors undertook a phylogeographic study of this species by comparing Afrotropical, Malagasy and Oriental-Australian populations based on COI. They found a deep split between the Afrotropical and Oriental-Australian populations of this taxon, which are separated by the Indian Ocean and dry eremic habitats on the northern coasts. Based on these genetic patterns and known morphological evidence, they transferred the Oriental-Australian populations into a separate species, Eurema drona (Horsfield, 1829), which they reinstated, with the Australian taxa comprising the subspecies E. drona australis Wallace, 1867.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

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)
PAPILIONOIDEA 02-Jan-2024 ADDED Dr Michael Braby