Species Hasora celaenus (Stoll, 1782)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Papilio celaenus Stoll, C. in Cramer, P. 1782. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title]. Vol. 4(32–34). Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild. pp. 165-252 pls 373-400 [issued 1782, dated 1775-1790] [215 pl. 393 figs A, B].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♂, Ambon (as Amboina), Maluku, Indonesia (designated in original description)
  Comment: Stoll in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [152] (referred to a holotype without justification).
• Thymele lugubris Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [161].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀, Manokwari (as Doreï), Irian Jaya, Indonesia (as Nouvelle Guinée) (designated in original description)
  Comment: Boisduval in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [152] (referred to a holotype without justification).
• Hasora violacea Elwes, H.J. & Edwards, J. 1897. A revision of the Oriental Hesperiidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 14(4): 101-324 pls 18-27 [issued 1897, dated 1898] [299].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown number unknown, Ambon (as Amboina), Maluku, Indonesia
  Comment: the authors mentioned in the original description that they had both sexes.
• Hasora thridas akshita Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 25(2–6): 9-79 pl. 1 [64].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Waigeo Is. (as Waigiu), Irian Jaya (as Halmaheira), Indonesia (designated in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described but did mention two localities.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [66] (referred to a type); 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. (interpret Evans' (1949) reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [66]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plant in Australia unknown.

 

General References

Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [172] (as Parata lugubris, referred to a single male from Cape York, probably a straggler from adjacent islands)

Meyrick, E. & Lower, O. 1902. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26(2): 38-129 [124] (as Hasora lugubris, referred to a single male from Cape York)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [124] (as Hasora celaenus lugubris Boisduval, 1832, referred to a male specimen from Cape York at SAMA and suggested it was a straggler from New Guinea)

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] [218] (as Parata lugubris, noted that the head and body were missing and that the wings were mounted on another species)

 

History of changes

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