Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• 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, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Cinnamomum camphora (L.) J.Presl [LAURACEAE] Camphor Laurel; Tasmannia lanceolata (Poir.) A.C.Sm. [WINTERACEAE] Mountain Pepperbush; Daphnandra repandula (F.Muell.) F.Muell. [MONIMIACEAE] Northern Sassafras; Doryphora aromatica (F.M.Bailey) L.S.Sm. [ATHEROSPERMATACEAE] Northern Sassafras; Daphnandra micrantha (Tul.) Benth. [MONIMIACEAE] Socketwood; Atherosperma moschatum Labill. [MONIMIACEAE]; Doryphora sassafras Endl. [MONIMIACEAE]; Geijera salicifolia Schott [RUTACEAE]; Tasmannia xerophila M.Gray [WINTERACEAE]; Cryptocarya erythroxylon Maiden [LAURACEAE]; Cryptocarya hypsopodia F.Muell. [LAURACEAE]; Cryptocarya triplinervis R.Br. [LAURACEAE]; Endiandra discolor Benth. [LAURACEAE]; Endiandra pubens Meisn. [LAURACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Cinnamomum camphora (Lauraceae) is introduced.

History of changes

• Papilio macleayanus insulana Waterhouse, G.A. 1920. Descriptions of new forms of butterflies from the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45(3): 468-471 [470].

  Type locality references:

  Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [18].

Generic Combinations

• Graphium macleayanus insulanum (Waterhouse, 1920).

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Cinnamomum camphora (L.) J.Presl [LAURACEAE] Camphor Laurel; Tasmannia lanceolata (Poir.) A.C.Sm. [WINTERACEAE] Mountain Pepperbush; Daphnandra repandula (F.Muell.) F.Muell. [MONIMIACEAE] Northern Sassafras; Doryphora aromatica (F.M.Bailey) L.S.Sm. [ATHEROSPERMATACEAE] Northern Sassafras; Daphnandra micrantha (Tul.) Benth. [MONIMIACEAE] Socketwood; Atherosperma moschatum Labill. [MONIMIACEAE]; Doryphora sassafras Endl. [MONIMIACEAE]; Geijera salicifolia Schott [RUTACEAE]; Tasmannia xerophila M.Gray [WINTERACEAE]; Cryptocarya erythroxylon Maiden [LAURACEAE]; Cryptocarya hypsopodia F.Muell. [LAURACEAE]; Cryptocarya triplinervis R.Br. [LAURACEAE]; Endiandra discolor Benth. [LAURACEAE]; Endiandra pubens Meisn. [LAURACEAE]).

History of changes

• Papilio macleayanus Leach, W.E. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 1 144 pp. 60 pls. [17 pl. 5].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♀, Port Jackson, NSW (as Port Jackson, Australasia, in original description)
  Comment: Leach in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; described from the Macleay collection; 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] [102] (indicated that he was unable to find the types of species described by Leach); Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. 90: 1–33 [9] (mentioned an unknown holotype and recorded it as a female).

  Type locality references:

  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]; Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33.
• Papilio scottianus Felder, C. 1862. Verzeichniss der von den Naturforschern der k.k. Fregatte Novara gesammelten Macrolepidopteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 473-496 [489].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (Felder in the original description referred to one specimen), Ash Is., NSW (designated in original description, now part of Kooragang Is., Newcastle, NSW)
  Comment: Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [9] (noted that the holotype could not be found at Tring Museum; confident comment on its identity by Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167–463 pl. 6 [424] suggested that Felder's holotype was present at Tring in 1895).

  Type locality references:

  Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167-463 pl. 6; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp.
• Graphium macleayanus wilsoni Couchman, L.E. 1965. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 99: 81-85 pl. 1 figs 1-10 [84 pl. 1 fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (Couchman designated a holotype), Kuranda, QLD (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) ANIC 2♂ (from the Crosby collection), Kuranda, QLD; DFC 1♀, Kuranda, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst viii 690 pp. [811]
• 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

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), 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: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

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. [235, 237] (biology)

Couchman, L.E. 1965. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 99: 81-85 pl. 1 figs 1-10 [84]

Couchman, L.E. & Couchman, R. 1977. The butterflies of Tasmania. Tasmanian Year Book No. 11. pp. 66–96. [73]

McCubbin, C. 1971. Australian Butterflies. Melbourne : Nelson xxxi 206 pp. [149] (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] [127]

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] [166] (biology)

History of changes

• Graphium macleayanus moggana Couchman, L.E. 1965. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 99: 81-85 pl. 1 figs 1-10 [84 pl. 1 fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (Couchman designated a holotype), Florentine River, TAS (6 mls [10 km] west of Maydena approx. 1000 ft [= 305 m]; designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) ANIC 2♂ 1♀, Florentine River, TAS.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE 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. [237] (biology)

Couchman, L.E. 1965. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 99: 81-85 pl. 1 figs 1-10 [84]

Couchman, L.E. & Couchman, R. 1977. The butterflies of Tasmania. Tasmanian Year Book No. 11. pp. 66–96. [73]

History of changes