Subspecies Graphium eurypylus lycaon (C. & R. Felder, 1865)

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• 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 [issued 1865, dated 1864–1867] [68] [from an unpublished manuscript by Boisduval; earlier recorded uses of the name are nom.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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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 and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

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05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		05-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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