Subspecies Hesperilla ornata monotherma (Lower, 1907)

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• Telesto monotherm Lower, O.B. 1907. New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic notes. No. XXIV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 169-172 [169].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♀, Kuranda, QLD (Lower gave Kuranda and Mareeba, QLD)
  Comment: Lower indicated in the original description that he described two specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the type specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the museums in Australia, with special reference to those in the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(1): 49-62 [53] (referred to a holotype); 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] (mentioned a holotype); 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 (1933) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the type specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the museums in Australia, with special reference to those in the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(1): 49-62 [53] (restricted the type locality to Kuranda, QLD).
• Hesperilla monotherma Lower, 1908 [there is doubt about the status of the names monotherm and monotherma; Lower used monotherm in 1907 but emended it to monotherma in 1908; the ICZN (Art. 33(b)(i) allows for an author to correct a name in a corrigendum; Lower's correction was valid in that it is clearly stated and both names are mentioned; it may be, however, that monotherm is an acceptable masculine form of monotherma in which case the name may change with the gender of the generic name; in this case, if the original form of the species name is used irrespective of the gender of the generic name, then monotherm would be used. Braby (2010) pointed out that Lower (1908, p. 312) actually corrected the original spelling to monotherma “The name is misprinted monotherm.”, and placed it in the genus Hesperilla Hewitson, 1868. The gender of both Telesto Boisduval, 1832, and Hesperilla is feminine, but because monotherm is a noun in apposition the species group name does not need to change. However, since monotherm is an incorrect original spelling that, prior to publication of the Checklist (Atkins & Edwards 1996) has had no usage, Lower’s subsequent correction to monotherma should be maintained].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♀, Kuranda, QLD
  Comment: the same type specimen as for monotherm Lower.

  Secondary source:

   Braby, M.F. 2010. The merging of taxonomy and conservation biology: a synthesis of Australian butterfly systematics (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 2707: 1-76 [Date published 3 Dec 2010].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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.

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [170]

Lower, O.B. 1908. Descriptions of new Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 311-317 [312] (treated as a variety)

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] [185] (treated as a subspecies)

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