Species Hypochrysops byzos (Boisduval, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lycaena byzos Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [81].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♀, Port Jackson, NSW (environs de port Jackson in original description)
  Comment: Boisduval in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 53: 401–412 [407] (referred to a type but this is not interpreted as a lectotype designation as no specimen could be found); Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1–116 [72] (could not locate a type).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 401-412, pl. 25 [408] (recorded specimens from Neutral Bay, Sydney taken within a mile of where the 'Astrolabe' was anchored between 2 and 19 December, 1826); Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 401-412, pl. 25; Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1-116.
• Hypochrysops hecalius Miskin, W.H. 1884. Descriptions of new Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 32(1): 93-96 [94].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T12407 ♀, VIC (designated in original description)
  Comment: Miskin in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 53: 401–412 [409] (mentioned a type male which has no status); 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 [523] (label information and recognised Sands' (1986) lectotype designation).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 401-412, pl. 25; 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, 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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Pomaderris lanigera (Andrews) Sims [RHAMNACEAE] Woolly Pomaderris; Pomaderris andromedifolia A.Cunn. [RHAMNACEAE]; Pomaderris aspera A.Cunn. ex DC. [RHAMNACEAE]; Pomaderris cotoneaster N.A.Wakef. [RHAMNACEAE]; Pomaderris eriocephala N.A.Wakef. [RHAMNACEAE]; Pomaderris ferruginea Fenzl [RHAMNACEAE]; Pomaderris intermedia A.Cunn. ex DC. [RHAMNACEAE]; Pomaderris sp. [RHAMNACEAE]; Commersonia fraseri J.Gay [STERCULIACEAE]).

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [454]

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. [351]

Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1-116 [72]

Sands, D.P.A. 1999. The Jewels, Hypochrysops species (Lycaenidae). pp. 261-277 in Kitching, R.L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R.L. & Pierce, N.E. (eds). Biology of Australian Butterflies. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xvi 395 pp. [269]

Tite, G.E. 1963. A revision of the genus Candalides and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 14(5): 197-259 4 pls [215]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1911. The life-history of Miletus hecalius, Miskin. Australian Naturalist 2: 78-79 [78]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 401-412, pl. 25 [409]

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] [117]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
01-Feb-2016	Luciini	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Mar-2013		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
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