Subspecies Hypochrysops pythias euclides Miskin, 1889

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Subspecies Hypochrysops pythias euclides Miskin, 1889

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Hypochrysops euclides Miskin, W.H. 1889. Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Australian Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3(4): 1514-1520 [publication date: Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925)] [1517].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♂, Port Douglas, QLD. Gippsland (as Gipps Land), VIC, was erroneously given in original description)
Comment: Miskin in the original description mentioned both sexes and did not mention a type; described from material in the Lucas collection; Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 28(1): 132–275 [170] (stated that Dr Lucas had informed him that the types had been destroyed); Waterhouse, G.A. 1910. The identity of the butterfly Miletus euclides, Miskin. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 27: 157–158 [158] (discussed the history of the types and stated that he had located specimens in the Lucas collection which he believed were the types of euclides); Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1–116 [76] (stated that the syntypes were destroyed, but Waterhouse's (1910) comments suggest that they may be in the SAMA where the Lucas collection now is; because Miskin's description clearly related to the northern Queensland species the name was used as a subspecies of pythias but Waterhouse did not say if the male, which was a specimen of hecalius, was a syntype or not one of the syntypic series).
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3; Waterhouse, G.A. 1910. The identity of the butterfly Miletus euclides, Miskin. Victorian Naturalist 27: 157-158 [158] (discussed how Miskin's locality of Gippsland may have been based on a specimen of H. hecalius and that according to Lucas the specimens of euclides came from Port Douglas, QLD); Waterhouse, G.A. 1910. The identity of the butterfly Miletus euclides, Miskin. Victorian Naturalist 27: 157-158; Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1-116.
Miletus meleagris Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [270].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Cardwell, QLD (designated in original description)
Comment: Waterhouse in the original description stated that he had one male and mentioned it as a type; described from the Kershaw collection and should have gone to the NMV; Waterhouse, G.A. & Turner, R.E. 1905. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part IV. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 29(4): 798–804 [800] (described a type female, which specimen has no status as it was not part of the original materia)l; 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] (listed the female but stated that it was not a type); Sands, D.P.A. 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder. Entomonograph 7: 1–116 [76] (mentioned the type but could not locate it); (the NMV web site contained no reference to a type of meleagris).
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. & Turner, R.E. 1905. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(4): 798-804; 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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Waterhouse, G.A. 1910. The identity of the butterfly Miletus euclides, Miskin. Victorian Naturalist 27: 157-158 [157]

Distribution

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Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From Cape Tribulation to Bluewater State Forest, QLD.

Australian Endemic.

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.

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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)