Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• 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] [167]
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [239]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Oriental Region.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Polyalthia nitidissima (Dunal) Benth. [ANNONACEAE] Canary Beech; Polyalthia australis (Benth.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE] China Pine; Annona reticulata L. [ANNONACEAE] Custard Apple; Miliusa brahei (F.Muell.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE] Raspberry Jelly Tree; Annona muricata L. [ANNONACEAE] Soursop; Annona squamosa L. [ANNONACEAE] Sugar Apple; Melodorum leichhardtii (F.Muell.) Benth. [ANNONACEAE] Wild Bananas; Artabotrys sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Desmos goezeanus (F.Muell.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE]; Desmos sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Fitzalania heteropetala (F.Muell.) F.Muell. [ANNONACEAE]; Melodorum spp.; Miliusa traceyi Jessup [ANNONACEAE]; Polyalthia sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Pseuduvaria froggattii (F.Muell.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE]; Uvaria concava Teysm. & Binn. [ANNONACEAE]; Uvaria rufa Reinw. ex Blume [ANNONACEAE]; Annona glabra L. [ANNONACEAE]; Magnolia sp. [MAGNOLIACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced plants include Annona glabra, A. muricata, A. reticulata, A. squamosa (Annonaceae), Magnolia sp. (Magnoliaceae).

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Graphium eurypylus eurypylus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Papilio eurypylus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Edition X, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 824 pp. [464].
Type data: lectotype whereabouts unknown sex unknown; Linnaeus in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; originally in Museum of Queen Ludovica Ulrica of Sweden, now part of ZIUU; Corbet, A.S. 1942. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pt 3. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 11: 91–94 [93] (noted type missing from ZIUU and LS); Corbet, A.S. 1949. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pt 7. Summary of determinations. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 18: 191–199 [195] (noted type missing from ZIUU and LS); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [253] (referred to a holotype).
Subsequent designation: Corbet, A.S. 1941. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pts 1, 2. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 10: 8–27 [13] (referred to a holotype); 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. [13] (interpret Corbet's (1941) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985); although Corbet could not locate a specimen in ZIUU he gave the figure number of it in Clerck and designating a figure is acceptable even though there is no evidence that the figure was based on a single specimen).
Type locality: Ambon (as Amboina; Linnaeus in original description gave East Indies (as Indiis)), see Corbet, A.S. 1949. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pt 7. Summary of determinations. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 18: 191–199 [193, 195] (restricted the type locality to Ambon (as Amboina)).

General References

Doubleday, E. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1847. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 1 pp. xii 1-18 pls A 1-4. [issued 1847, dated 1846-1850, publication dates] [14] (incorrect subsequent spelling as eurypilus)

Godart, J.B. 1819. Zoologie. Vol. 9 Pt 1 pp. 13–328 in Latreille, P.A. & Godart, J.B. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. On the dates of publication of the natural history portions of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 577–582; Cowan, C.F. 1968. [publication dates] Enc. Méth. 9. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4(7): 307–311, 390 [310]; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1899. On the dates of the Encyclopédie Méthodique: additional note. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899(3): 595] [45] (incorrect subsequent spelling as eurypilus)

History of changes

• Papilio lycaon Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Bd 2, Abtheilung 2, Heft 1. Wien : Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften pp. 1-136 pls 1-21. [issued 1865, dated 1864–1867] [68] [from an unpublished manuscript by Boisduval; earlier recorded uses of the name are nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Brisbane, Australia (the Felders gave Australia as type locality; Waterhouse (1937: 128) suggested Brisbane as type locality; Waterhouse (1936: 7) stated that type had a Brisbane label)
  Comment: the Felders in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [7] (stated that the type was in the Rothschild collection).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York, QLD, to Sydney, NSW, rare vagrant to ACT.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [239] (biology)

Sankowsky, G. 1991. New food plants for some Queensland butterflies. Australian Entomological Magazine 18(1): 9-19 [10]

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] [128]

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] [167] (description, distribution)

History of changes

• Papilio eurypylus lycaonides Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167-463 pl. 6 [430] [incorrect subsequent spelling of eurypylus as eurypilus].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 12♂, Humboldt Bay, coast near Arfak, Ati-Ati-Onin, Irian Jaya, Waigeu, Aru Is., Indonesia; Fergusson Is., Papua New Guinea (given in original description)
  Comment: Rothschild in the original description mentioned 12 males but did not mention a type.
• Papilio eurypylus priscus Fruhstorfer, H. 1907. Neue Papilio-Rassen aus dem indo-australischen Gebiet. Entomologische Zeitschrift 21(30): 182-184 [182].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 6♂ 1♀, Waigeo, Indonesia (in original description as Waigiu)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description mentioned several specimens.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [254]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs only on the Torres Strait Ils in Australia; extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

General References

D'Abrera, B. 1990. Butterflies of the Australian Region. Melbourne : Hill House 416 pp. [Date published 31-Dec-90] [114]

Lambkin, T.A. & Knight, A.I. 1990. Butterflies recorded from Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 17(4): 101-112 [101]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [253] (misspelled lycaenoides)

History of changes

• Papilio eurypylus nyctimus 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] [167 fig. 568].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL13801 ♂, Darwin, NT (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL13802 1♀, Darwin, NT
  Comment: the original description listed seven males and eight females; other paralectotypes were not listed by Peters.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Yampi Sound, WA, Melville Is., Daly River Crossing, Darwin, Alligator River, Cobourg Peninsula and Groote Eylandt, NT, and possibly Doomadgee, QLD.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Polyalthia nitidissima (Dunal) Benth. [ANNONACEAE] Canary Beech).

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae recorded November and December.

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [240] (biology)

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] [128]

History of changes