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Subspecies Euschemon rafflesia alba Mabille, 1903

  • Euschemon rafflesia alba Mabille, P. 1903. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Family Hesperidae. Genera Insectorum 17a: 1-78 pls 1-4 [dated 1903–1904] [36].
    Type data:
     Lectotype BMNH ♂, Cooktown, QLD (designated in original description)
    Comment: Mabille in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
  • Euschemon rafflesia viridis Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. III. Descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(5–6): 409-410 [Date published 15/Dec/1932: date given as 15 December 1932 by Atkins, A.F. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. pp. 232–235, 357 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, V.R. (eds). Hesperiidae. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing pp.xiv 529. [357]] [410] [the name viridis was published simultaneously on 15th Dec. 1932, in the paper where it is described as a subspecies and in 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 [publication date: 15 December 1932] [205] as a name first introduced in synonymy of Euschemon rafflesis alba Mabille, [1903]; date from Musgrave, A. 1958. Bibliography of Australian Entomology. CSIRO, typescript (unpublished card index to papers which include reference to insect species in Australia). i 495 pp. [dated 1931–58] [467]; some authors have attributed the Waterhouse 1932 paper in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. to 1933, but in Anderson, C. 1933. Presidential Address, delivered at the Fifty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the Linnean Soc. of N.S.W. 29th March, 1933. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 58(1–2): i–ixxv [publication dates for 1932 Linn. Soc. N.S.W papers] [i] the President stated 'The concluding Part of Volume lvii [1932] of the Society's Proceedings was issued in December'; this was discussed by Atkins, A.F. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Hesperiidae. pp. 232–235, 357 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, V.R. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xiv 529 pp. [357]].
    Type data:
     Holotype AM KL06533 ♂ (Waterhouse designated a holotype in the paper, but types were not mentioned in the book), Kuranda, QLD (designated in original description).
    Paratype(s) AM KL06534 1♂, Kuranda, QLD; AM KL06536 3♂ 2♀, Kuranda, QLD
    Comment: Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [9] (type information).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Cooktown south to the Bluewater State Forest near Townsville and at Mackay, QLD.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: arboreal, herbivore.

Closed forest, tropical.

Extra Ecological Information

Life history similar to rafflesia rafflesia, recorded throughout the year.

 

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
05-Apr-2011 05-Apr-2011 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)