Subspecies Heteronympha cordace cordace (Geyer, 1832)

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Subspecies Heteronympha cordace cordace (Geyer, 1832)

Tisiphone cordace Geyer, C. 1832. pp. [1]–48 in Hübner, J. Zuträge zur Sammlung Exotischer Schmetterlinge. Augsburg : Hübner. [42] [illustrated, published, but not named in pl. [137] figs 797, 798 by Hübner, 1826; described by Geyer, 1832, on p. 42 and published after Hübner's death].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Monaro district, NSW (East India (as Ostindien) given incorrectly in original description)
Comment: Geyer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Couchman, L.E. 1954. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera with descriptions of new forms and subspecies. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. 88: 67–79 [68] (discussed the history of the name).
Type locality references:
Couchman, L.E. 1954. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera with descriptions of new forms and subspecies. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 88: 67-79 [69] (examined the historical evidence and suggested that the type locality was the Monaro region of NSW); Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [23] (gave 'mountain ranges of southern NSW').

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), 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)