Subspecies Hesperilla trimaculata trimaculata Tepper, 1882

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hesperilla trimaculata Tepper, J.G.O. 1882. The Papilionidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 4: 25-36 pls 2, 3 [32 pl. 2 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂, Monarto, SA (designated in original description)
  Comment: Tepper did not indicate in the original description the number of specimens described).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [120] (used the words 'types of trimaculata and quadrimaculata' and because this statement is not individual it is not accepted as a lectotype designation); 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 [57] (also used 'Types' but went on to mention an individual 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 (1933) mention of an individual specimen as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Hesperilla quadrimaculata Tepper, J.G.O. 1882. The Papilionidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 4: 25-36 pls 2, 3 [32 pl. 2 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♀, Ardrossan, SA (Ardrossan and Yorkes Valley, SA, given in original description)
  Comment: Tepper 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 [120] (used the words 'types of trimaculata and quadrimaculata'); 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 [57] (also used 'Types' but went on went on to mention an individual 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. [120] (interpret Waterhouse's (1933) reference to a type as a lectotype designation; Lower's use of the words 'types of trimaculata and quadrimaculata' was not an individual statement and is not interpreted as a lectotype designation).

  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 [57] (restricted the type locality to Ardrossan, SA).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lower, O.B. 1897. Descriptions of new species of Australian Lepidoptera, with notes on synonymy. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22(1): 10-32 [publication date: 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)] [25] (had correctly synonymised the names but did not choose between them)
• Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. II. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(3–4): 218-238 [223] (as first reviser gave priority to Hesperilla trimaculata Tepper, 1882 over Hesperilla quadrimaculata Tepper, 1882)
• Moulds, M.S. & Atkins, A.F. 1986. The specific status of Motasingha trimaculata (Tepper) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) with the description of a new subspecies. General and Applied Entomology 18: 25-32 [28]

 

Generic Combinations

• Hesperilla trimaculata trimaculata (Tepper, 1882).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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)
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	05-Jan-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		07-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)