Subspecies Euschemon rafflesia rafflesia (W.S. Macleay, 1826)

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Subspecies Euschemon rafflesia rafflesia (W.S. Macleay, 1826)

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Hesperia rafflesia Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [463].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown sex unknown, reputedly lost, Australia (as New Holland in original description)
Comment: Macleay in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(3–4): 107–125 [109] (stated that the type was lost); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101–133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [104] (general comment on types from King's voyage).
Type locality references:
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] (suggested Port Macquarie, NSW, as the type locality).
Euschemon alboornatus Olliff, A.S., 1891. Stray notes on Lepidoptera. No. 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 6(1): 27-30 [publication date: Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925)] [30].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (Olliff in the original description clearly implied that he described a single specimen), Dunoon, Richmond River, NSW (designated in original description)
Comment: Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(3–4): 107–125 [109] (stated that the specimen was lost; Olliff's types should be in the AM); 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] (did not list any type material in the AM).
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [109] (confirmed Richmond River, NSW).