Subspecies Hesperilla crypsargyra crypsargyra (Meyrick, 1888)

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• Telesto crypsargyra Meyrick, E. 1888. Descriptions of new Australian Rhopalocera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2(4): 827-834 [Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925). [v] issue date of (2)2(4) was 21st March, 1888] [829].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Blackheath, 1100 m (as 3,500 ft) NSW (designated in original description)
  Comment: Meyrick indicated in the original description that he described several specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [134] (stated that the type was in the Meyrick Collection); 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 [117] (specifically stated 'I have seen the holotype male in Meyrick's collection'; although Meyrick did not normally label a type Waterhouse clearly referred to one specimen); 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 Waterhouse's (1937) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985); Lower's (1911) statement that the type was in Meyrick's collection would normally be a lectotype designation except that we know Meyrick rarely labelled a specimen as a type and so Lower's comment may not define one specimen).
• Hesperilla crypsargyra lesouefi Tindale, N.B. 1953. New Rhopalocera, and a list of species from the Grampian Mountains, western Victoria. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 11(1): 43-68 pls 18-21 [56].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I. 19093 ♂ (Tindale designated a holotype), Mt William 610–915 m (as 2,000–3,000 feet), western VIC (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) SAMA 1♀, Mt William, VIC; NMV T.3498-T.3508 5♂ 6♀, Mt William, VIC; RHF unknown number, males, females, Mt William, VIC; ANIC 6♂ 1♀, Mt William, VIC
  Comment: type material from the F.E. Wilson collection type material in ANIC from the Le Souef collection.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		07-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)