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Species Hypochrysops cleon Grose-Smith, 1900

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Hypochrysops cleon Grose-Smith, H. 1900. Descriptions of new species of butterflies captured by Mr. A.S. Meek, at Milne Bay, British New Guinea, in the museum of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, at Tring. Novitates Zoologicae 7: 86-89 [88].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea (designated in title of original paper)
Comment: Grose-Smith in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described or mention a type.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only known in Australia from the Claudie River, QLD; extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

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)

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

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IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
Indonesia
- Aru Islands
- Irian Jaya
Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded.

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [453] (distribution, identification, observations)

D'Abrera, B. 1971. Butterflies of the Australasian Region. Melbourne : Landsdowne Press 415 pp. [335] (new status as a subspecies of Hypochrysops protogenes C. & R. Felder, 1865)

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. [350] (distribution)

Fruhstorfer, H. 1908. Neue Lycaeniden. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 2: 85-86, 91-92, 99-100 [99] (as Miletus cleon (Grose-Smith, 1900))

Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1-116 [59] (taxonomy, distribution)

Sands, D.P.A., De Baar, M. & Johnson, S.J. 1979. First record of Hypochrysops cleon Grose-Smith (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 6: 23-24 [23] (recorded from Australia; restored to species status)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)