Subspecies Hypocysta angustata angustata Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

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• Hypocysta aroa angustata Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [34 figs 148, 149].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL02657 ♂, Rocky River, Cape York, QLD (Waterhouse & Lyell gave Claudie River and Coen, QLD, in original description)
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned 14 males and one female; 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. [21] (listed a single type and the whereabouts of the remaining paralectotypes is unknown).

  Type locality references:

  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. [20] (restricted the type locality to Rocky River, QLD); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (it is likely that Waterhouse & Lyell recorded Rocky River as Coen in the original description).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Iron Range to Coen.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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. [330] (biology)

Jordan, K. 1924. On Hypocysta and some allied genera of Satyrinae (Lep. Rhop.) from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 31: 279-297 [281] (raised Hypocysta angustata Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 to specific status)

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [556]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [123]

Wood, G.A. 1988. The life history of Hypocysta angustata angustata Waterhouse & Lyell and Hypocysta irius (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 14(6): 83-86 [83] (biology)

 

History of changes

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
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED