Subspecies Hypochrysops hippuris nebulosis Sands, 1986
- Hypochrysops hippuris nebulosis Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1-116 [85].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (Sands designated a holotype), Iron Range, QLD (designated in original description).
Paratype(s) ANIC 3♂, Iron Range, QLD; EUQ 1♂, Iron Range, QLD; ANIC 1♀, 6 mi[les] N of Iron Range Airfield, QLD; ANIC 1♂, Claudie River, QLD
Comment: Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [358] (referred to a holotype).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known from the Iron Range area, QLD.
Australian Endemic.
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
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. [440] (as Hypochrysops hippuris Hewitson, 1874)
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. [344] (distribution)
Kerr, J.F.R. 1966. New records of Lepidoptera in Australia. Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 5: 72-73 [72] (first record from Australia)
History of changes
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