Subspecies Heteronympha merope merope (Fabricius, 1775)

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Subspecies Heteronympha merope merope (Fabricius, 1775)

Papilio merope Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [495].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Rh5045 ♀, Botany Bay, NSW (Nova Hollandia in original description)
Comment: Fabricius in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Riley, N.D. & Gabriel, A.G. 1924. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum. Part I. Satyrinae. London : British Museum 62 pp. [36] (listed a single female type in the BMNH and gave type information); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Satyridae, Nymphalidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. [3] (type information); Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [515] (listed a single specimen in the Banks collection); 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. (as the species was described from the Banks collection, Zimsen's (1964) listing of a single Banksian specimen is taken as evidence for a holotype).
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [101] (stated that the species was taken originally at Botany Bay and was the first butterfly collected in Australia; it was collected by Banks on Cook's first voyage); Waterhouse, G.A. 1938. Notes on Jones' Icones (Lepidoptera). With footnotes and appendix by Sir Edward B. Poulton. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London A 13(1–3): 9-17 [10, 12] (stated that the holotype came from the south side of Botany Bay); Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [22] (gave Botany Bay as the type locality).
Oreas oenomais Hübner, J. 1819. Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge. Augsburg : Jacob Hübner (and by Geyer after Hübner's death). 4 pp. index (unnumbered) [225] pls (unnumbered). [1827, dated 1806; this work is the subject of Opinion 276, ICZN, and is on the Offical List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [pl. [94] figs 1-4] [Hemming, F. 1937. Hübner: a Bibliographical and Systematic Account of the Entomological Works of Jacob Hübner and of the Supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer. London : Royal Entomological Society of London Vol. 1 xxxiv 605 pp. (340) gave date of publication].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, unknown (Hübner gave no locality in original publication)
Comment: Hübner in the original illustrations figured more than one specimen, and both sexes.
Papilio themis Dalman, J.W. 1823. Analecta Entomologica. Holmiae : Typis Lindhianis Vol. 4 vii 104 [4] pp. 4 pls. [43].
Type data:
Holotype NHRM ♀, unknown (locality as unknown in original description)
Comment: Dalman in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; described from the Schoenherr collection; Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243–248, 359–360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 529 pp. [359] (examined the type and confirmed its identity as Heteronympha merope (Fabricius, 1775); 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. (Edwards (1996) called it a holotype, but while there almost certainly was a single original specimen this has not been proved).
Type locality references:
Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.; 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.
Satyrus archemor Godart, J.B. 1824. Zoologie. Vol. 9 Pt 2 pp. 329–706 708–711 794–828 in Latreille, P.A. & Godart, J.B. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. [publication date: Cowan, C.F. 1968. [publication dates] Enc. Méth. 9. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4(7): 307–311, 390, Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. On the dates of publication of the natural history portions of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 577–582, Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1899. On the dates of the Encyclopédie Méthodique: additional note. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899(3): 595] [500] [Godart questioned whether the specimens he described and named as Satyrus archemor were males of Papilio merope Fabricius, 1775].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande in original description)
Comment: Godart in the original description referred to males.
Heteronympha merope suffusa Skuse, F.A.A. 1895. On a colour-variety of Heteronympha merope Fab., from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1895: xiii-xv [xiv].
Type data:
Holotype AM KL00959 ♀ (Skuse stated in the original description that he had a single example), Bowral, NSW (as Mt Gib[raltar] between Mittagong and Bowral, altitude over 2000 ft, in original description)
Comment: Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [20] (type information).
Type locality references:
Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst viii 690 pp. [705] (synonymy of Heteronympha merope (Fabricius, 1775) and Papilio themis Dalman, 1823)
Gaede, M. 1931. Familia Satyridae I. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 43 pp. 1–320. [83]
Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [244]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
- South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal