Subspecies Hypochrysops apollo phoebus (Waterhouse, 1928)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Miletus apollo phoebus Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 401-412, pl. 25 [405].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL22637 ♂ (Waterhouse in the original description mentioned and figured a holotype), Cape York, QLD (Cape York and Prince of Wales Is. mentioned in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL22638-44, KL22648 6♂; AM KL22639 1♂, Cape York, QLD; AM KL22640 1♂ 1♂, Cape York, QLD; AM KL22641 1♂ 1♀, Cape York, QLD; AM KL22642 1♂ 1♀, Cape York, QLD; AM KL22643 1♂, Cape York, QLD; AM KL22544 1♂, Cape York, QLD; AM KL22638 1♀, Cape York, QLD; AM KL22648 1♀, Prince of Wales Is., QLD
  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. [27] (did not list this name); Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1–116 [26] (unnecessarily designated a lectotype and gave type information, including locality on label of holotype); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [348] (referred to the lectotype designated by Sands (1986)).

  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.; Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1-116; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known in Australia from Prince of Wales Is. to near Coen, QLD; extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

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. [459] (distribution, identification, life history)

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [353] (distribution, life history)

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [348]

Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1-116 [26] (taxonomy, distribution, biology)

Sands, D.P.A. & Fenner, T.L. 1978. New butterfly records from the New Guinea Region. Australian Entomological Magazine 4(6): 101-108 [105] (Papua New Guinea locality)

 

History of changes

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