Species Eurema puella (Boisduval, 1832)
Broad-margined Grass-yellow
Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement
- Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [272]
- Edwards, E.D. 1996. Pieridae. pp. 240-242, 358-359 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. [241, 358]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
- Indonesia
- Aru Islands
- Irian Jaya
- Papua New Guinea
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Archidendron hirsutum I.Nielsen [MIMOSACEAE]; Ventilago ecorollata F.Muell. [RHAMNACEAE]).
Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia
Eurema puella puella (Boisduval, 1832)
Xanthidia puella Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv 5–267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 (60 pl. 2 fig. 8)].
Type data: syntypes whereabouts unknown ♂*; Boisduval in the original description mentioned several localities and so had several specimens; Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 11: 1–77 pls 1–30 [31] (could not locate a type); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [282] (incorrectly referred to a holotype); 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. (Parsons' (1998) incorrect reference to a holotype is not accepted as a lectotype designation as he knew of no specimen).
Type locality: New Guinea (in original description), see Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 11: 1–77 pls 1–30 [31] (unjustifiably recorded the type locality as Dutch New Guinea).
General References
Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11: 1-77 pls 1-30 [33] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement included Queensland in the distribution of Eurema puella papuana (Butler) but studied no Australian specimens)
History of changes
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07-Mar-2024 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
04-Feb-2023 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 22-Dec-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby (ANU) |
13-May-2022 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
26-Feb-2021 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
04-Jun-2020 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
06-Sep-2017 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | |
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