Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Museums

Regional Maps

Subspecies Eurema puella virgo (Wallace, 1867)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands).


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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

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. [272] (as Eurema candida virgo Wallace, 1867, biology, noted that some authors refer to the subspecies as papuana Butler, 1898)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [63]

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] [153] (as Terias candida virgo Wallace, 1867, description, distribution, considers the Australian and the Aru Ils specimens are the same subspecies)

Wood, G.A. 1992. The life history of Eurema candida virgo (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Coliadinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 19: 115-116 [115] (biology)

Yata, O. 1985. Part 1 : Pieridae. pp. 206-438 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. II. Japan : Plapac 1-623 pls 1-162. [243] (as Eurema candida papuana (Butler, 1898), description, distribution map, considered that the Australian specimens belong to the subspecies papuana Butler, 1898 rather than to the subspecies virgo Wallace, 1867)

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] (taxonomy, description)

 

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)
05-Mar-2013 05-Mar-2013 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 30-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012 28-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)