Subspecies Hypochrysops ignitus chrysonotus Grose-Smith, 1899

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Subspecies Hypochrysops ignitus chrysonotus Grose-Smith, 1899

Hypochrysops chrysonotus Grose-Smith, H. 1899. Rhopalocera exotica, being illustrations of new, rare and unfigured species of butterflies. London : Gurney & Jackson Vol. 3 215 pp. [Pt 48, p. 27].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀, Cooktown, QLD (designated in original description)
Comment: Grose-Smith in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; described from the Staudinger collection; Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1–116 [51] (referred to a holotype but knew of no specimen); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [351] (also referred to a holotype).
Type locality references:
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.

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Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

In Australia from Cape York south to Kulburn, QLD; extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

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

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)