Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

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

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya, Maluku), 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Annona muricata L. [ANNONACEAE] Soursop; Desmos sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Rollinia deliciosa Saff. [ANNONACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced plants include Annona muricata, Rollinia deliciosa.

History of changes

• Papilio macfarlanei Butler, A.G. 1877. On a collection of Lepidoptera from Cape York and the south-east coast of New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877(3): 466-475 [publication date: Duncan, F.M. 1937. Dates of publication of the society's Proceedings, 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of "Proceedings" 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the "Transactions", 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London A 107: 71–84] [471].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Rh.11119 ♀, Papua New Guinea (as New Guinea in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀
  Comment: Butler in the original description indicated that he described two specimens; 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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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] (label data indicate nature of type specimens and identifiers).

  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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait Ils, Cape York to Ingham, QLD; extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya, Maluku), 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Rollinia deliciosa Safford. [ANNONACEAE] Brazilian Custard Apple; Annona reticulata Linn. [ANNONACEAE] Custard Apple (confirmed (Hopkinson 2013)); Polyalthia longifolia pendula (Sonn) Thw. [ANNONACEAE] Indian Mast Tree; Miliusa traceyi Jessup [ANNONACEAE] Miliusa Tree; Miliusa brahei (F.Muell.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE] Raspberry Jelly Tree; Annona muricata L. [ANNONACEAE] Soursop; Annona squamosa L. [ANNONACEAE] Sugar Apple; Melodorum leichardtii (F.Muell.) Benth. [ANNONACEAE] Wild Bananas; Desmos sp. [ANNONACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Other record for host plant is "possibly" Xylopia (see Braby 2000)

General References

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

Hopkinson, M. 2013. Life history notes anbd new food plant records for Graphium macfarlanei macfarlanei (Butler, 1877) Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Papilioninae). Australian Entomologist 40(3): 101-110

Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167-463 pl. 6 [446] (description, distribution)

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] [168]

History of changes