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

Palegreen Triangle

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 [issued 1865, dated 1864–1867] [68] [from an unpublished manuscript by Boisduval; earlier recorded uses of the name are nom.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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

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)