Subspecies Hypocysta adiante adiante (Hübner, 1831)

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Subspecies Hypocysta adiante adiante (Hübner, 1831)

Neonympha adiante Hübner, J. 1831. Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge. Augsburg : Hübner 48 pp. 70-103 pls. [written by Hübner, published after Hübner's death by Geyer] [figs 545, 546] [figs first published unlabelled in [1824], name first validly applied to species in vol. 3, p. 33, published [1831]].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Australia (as Neu-Holland in original publication)
Comment: Hübner in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Hypocysta undulata Butler, A.G. 1875. Contributions towards a knowledge of the Rhopalocera of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 23(1): 1-10 [2].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Rh3522 ♂ (Butler in the original description mentioned a type), Cape York, QLD (Champion Bay [Geraldton], WA, given erroneously in original description)
Comment: Riley, N.D. & Gabriel, A.G. 1924. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum. Part I. Satyrinae. London : British Museum 62 pp. [59] (listed a single male in BMNH and gave type information).
Type locality references:
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] [108] (noted information from the register of the BMNH indicating the type locality as Cape York and not Champion Bay).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

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.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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

IBRA

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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)