Species Exometoeca nycteris Meyrick, 1888

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• Exometoeca nycteris Meyrick, E. 1888. Descriptions of new Australian Rhopalocera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2(4): 827-834 [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). [v] issue date of (2)2(4) was 21st March, 1888] [833].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Meyrick in the original description indicated that he described one specimen), Albany, WA (designated in original description)
  Comment: Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls [156] (type specimen information, and an incorrect date as 1887); 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 [110] (type information).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Albany and from Chittering south to Margaret River, WA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, open forest, temperate.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plant not recorded, life history not recorded, adult flies rapidly and settles with wings extended flat, flies thoughout the day, seasonal, recorded from October to January.

 

General References

Burns, A. 1980. Australian Butterflies in Colour. Photography by E.R. Rotherham. Sydney : Reed 112 pp. [18]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [104] (biology)

Seitz, A. 1927. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Hesperiidae]. 1027-1107 pls 163-175 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279] [1061] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Exometacca)

Sharp, D. (ed.) 1902. Index Zoologicus 1880–1900. Compiled by C.O. Waterhouse. London : Zoological Society of London xii 421 pp. [140] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Exomytoeca)

Watson, E.Y. 1893. A proposed classification of the Hesperiidae, with a revision of the genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893(1): 3-132 [publication date: < 0107>] [130] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Exometaeca)

 

History of changes

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