Species Geitoneura klugii (Guérin-Méneville, 1830)
Klug's Xenica, Marbled Xenica
- Satyrus klugii Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1830. Insectes. pls 1–2, 13–17 in Duperrey, L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. Atlas. Paris : Bertrand. [issued 1830, dated 1826] [pl. 17 fig. 2] [atlas published 1830–1831, text in Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1838. Crustacés, Arachnides et Insectes. pp. xii 9–320 in Duperrey, L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie I. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 2 Pt 2. (280)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀, Port Jackson, NSW (as des environs du Port Jakson, Nouvelle-Hollande in original description)
Comment: Guérin-Méneville originally illustrated a female, but it is not known if this was based on a single specimen; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. On the identity of the butterfly known in Australia as Heteronympha philerope Boisd., 1832. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(5–6): 253–258 [254] (discussed the history of the type material in detail); Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. 90: 1–33 [28] (referred to a holotype, but but did not indicate the figure or a specimen).Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. On the identity of the butterfly known in Australia as Heteronympha philerope Boisd., 1832. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(5–6): 253-258 [254] (suggested the Blue Mtns, NSW, as the type locality and gave type information). - Satyrus singa Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [145].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (Boisduval in the original description stated that he had one specimen), near Sydney, NSW (Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande) in original description)
Comment: Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. On the identity of the butterfly known in Australia as Heteronympha philerope Boisd., 1832. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(5–6): 253–258 [254] (discussed the holotype exhaustively).Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. On the identity of the butterfly known in Australia as Heteronympha philerope Boisd., 1832. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(5–6): 253-258 [254] (suggested near Sydney as the type locality). - Satyrus philerope Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [147] [originally spelled as philérope].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown probably both sexes, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande in original description)
Comment: Boisduval in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. On the identity of the butterfly known in Australia as Heteronympha philerope Boisd., 1832. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(5–6): 253–258 [254] (discussed this name exhaustively and concluded that the type was lost and that Boisduval described a female klugii as a supposed male philerope, and as a female philerope he described one of the species of Heteronympha, applied the name to G. klugii but did not describe a neotype to fix this decision, he regarded the name philerope as invalid because it was based on two species but the name was validly described); Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. 90: 1–33 [28] (followed Waterhouse and did not list the name); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (application of the name still depends upon a lectotype designation but clearly this should be done to accord with its current application). - Xenica klugii gemini Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1893. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 1. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. 78 pp. [50] [incorrect subsequent spelling as kluggii, subsequently corrected in the Errata (1894) p. 134)].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (Anderson & Spry mentioned in the original description that they had one specimen), VIC (no more precise locality given in original description). - Xenica klugii mulesi Burns, A.N. 1948. New geographical races of Australian butterflies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 15: 86-102 pls 3-8 figs 1-5 [issued 1948, dated 1947] [86 pl. 3 figs 1-5] [incorrect subsequent spelling as klugi].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Wardang Is., SA (designated in original description); whereabouts unknown ♀
Comment: Burns in the original description mentioned types, male and female, and these must be the two syntypes; the NMV web site listed seven males and two females as paratypes, and these may include the two syntypes. - Geitoneura klugii insula Burns, A.N. 1951. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera with descriptions of new subspecies and life histories. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 17: 83-105 pls 1-6 [96] [incorrect subsequent spelling as klugi].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV T14470 ♂, Rottnest Is., WA (designated in original description); NMV T14471 ♀
Comment: Burns in the original description referred to types and both sexes were described); the NMV web site listed 19 male paratypes and two female paratypes and two of unknown sex as well as a male 'holotype' and female 'allotype'; the type numbers of the last two specimens are given.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1893. Exhibition of specimens. Victorian Naturalist 9(12): 178 [178] (synonymy of Satyrus klugii Guérin-Méneville and Xenica gemini Anderson & Spry)
- Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. On the identity of the butterfly known in Australia as Heteronympha philerope Boisd., 1832. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(5–6): 253-258 [253] (synonymy of Satyrus klugii Guérin-Méneville, Satyrus singa Boisduval and Satyrus philerope Boisduval, referred to the original synonymy of Satyrus philerope Boisduval and Satyrus klugii Guérin-Méneville by Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1838. Crustacés, Arachnides et Insectes. pp. xii 9–320 in Duperrey, L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie I. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 2 Pt 2. [279])
- Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P.Beauv. [POACEAE] False Brome; Joycea pallida (R.Br.) H.P.Linder [POACEAE] Silver Grass; Themeda triandra Forsskål [POACEAE]; Austrostipa flavescens (Labill.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett [POACEAE]; Poa labillardieri Steudel [POACEAE]; Poa morrisii Vick. [POACEAE]; Poa tenera J.D.Hook. [POACEAE]; Ehrharta calycina Smith [POACEAE]; Vulpia sp. [POACEAE]).
Extra Ecological Information
Introduced plants include Brachypodium distachyon, Ehrharta calycina, Vulpia sp. (Poaceae).
General References
Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1893. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 1. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. 78 pp. [49] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Xenica kluggii, biology)
Braby, M.F. & New, T.R. 1989. Adult reproductive biology of Geitoneura klugii and G. acantha (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae) near Melbourne, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 361: 397-409 [dated 1988] [397]
Braby, M.F. & New, T.R. 1989. Population biology of adult Geitoneura klugii and G. acantha (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae) near Melbourne, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 36: 141-158 [dated 1988] [141]
Braby, M.F. & New, T.R. 1999. The Xenicas, Geitoneura klugii and G. acantha (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae. pp. 227-238 in Kitching, R.L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R.L. & Pierce, N.E. (eds). Biology of Australian Butterflies. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xvi 395 pp. [227]
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [337] (description, distribution)
Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [28]
Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [148, 151] (biology)
Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Satyridae]. 285-401 pls 87-99 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] [304 pl. 93c] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Xenica klugi)
Rainbow, W.J. 1907. A Guide to the Study of Australian Butterflies. Melbourne : T.C. Lothian 272 pp. [110] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Xenica kluggi, biology)
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] [104]
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] [44] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Xenica klugi, description, distribution)
History of changes
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