Genus Euschemon Doubleday, 1846

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Regional Maps

• Euschemon Doubleday, E. 1846. Descriptions of some new or imperfectly characterized Lepidoptera from Australia. Appendix. pp. 513-521 in Stokes, J.L. (ed.). Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837–38–39–40–41–42–43 by Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 pp. xii 1-522. [513].

  Type species:

   Hesperia rafflesia W.S. Macleay, 1826 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Mabille, P. 1903. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Family Hesperidae. Genera Insectorum 17a: 1-78 pls 1-4 [dated 1903–1904] [36] (used the incorrect subsequent spelling Euschoemon; incorrectly attributed Euschemon to Macleay, (1826) and used incorrect date of 1827)

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] [223] (description)

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