Species Heteronympha mirifica (Butler, 1866)
Wonder Brown
- Lasiommata mirifica Butler, A.G. 1866. Descriptions of some new species of diurnal Lepidoptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 17: 285-287 [286].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Rh3847 ♀ (Butler in the original description indicated that he had a single specimen), Australia (Butler in original description did not know provenance of specimen)
Comment: 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. [37] (type information); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Satyridae, Nymphalidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. [4] (stated 'Butler's type consists of a very badly damaged portion of the left wings, head and thorax').Type locality references:
Butler, A.G. 1867. Description of a new genus and one new species of Satyridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 19: 124-127 pl. 3 [127] (recorded habitat as unknown); Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst viii 690 pp. [80] (gave Australia as the locality); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Satyridae, Nymphalidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. [4] (noted label data giving Australia, as N.H. (New Holland), as type locality). - Heteronympha digglesi Miskin, W.H. 1876. Descriptions of new species of Australian diurnal Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 24(3): 451-457 [454].
Type data:
Syntype(s) QM T12367 1♂, Brisbane, QLD (designated in original description); QM T12368 1♂
Comment: Miskin in the original description implied that he had many specimens; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [521] (type information).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Catalogue of the Rhopalocera of Australia. Memoirs of the NSW Naturalists' Club No. 1. iii 49 pp. [16]
- 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
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Eumundi, QLD, to Mallacoota, VIC.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- Victoria: SE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Gahnia clarkei Benl [CYPERACEAE] Tall Sawsedge; Oplismenus sp. [POACEAE]).
General References
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [341] (biology)
Edwards, E.D. 1973. Delayed ovarian development and aestivation in adult females of Heteronympha merope merope (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12: 92-98 [92] (biology)
New, T.R. 1991. Butterfly Conservation. South Melbourne : Oxford University Press xi 224 pp. [111] (incorrect subsequent spelling as mirabilis)
Semper, G. 1879. Beitrag zur Rhopalocerenfauna von Australien. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg V(14): 138-194 pls 8, 9 [dated 1878] [53, separate] (incorrect subsequent spelling as digglesii)
Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [101]
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] [38] (description, distribution)
History of changes
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