Subspecies Hypolimnas alimena lamina Fruhstorfer, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hypolimnas alimena lamina Fruhstorfer, H. 1903. Neue Hypolimnas und Uebersicht der bekannten Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 48(1–2): 73-87 [73].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 2♂ 3♀, Cape York, QLD (Cap York designated in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description mentioned two males and three females; Horne, W. & Kahle, I. 1935. Ueber Entomologische Sammlungen, Entomologen und Entomo-Museologie. Berlin : Dahlem vi 540 pp. 36 pls [dated 1935–1937] [84] (location of part of the Fruhstorfer collection).

  Type locality references:

  Horne, W. & Kahle, I. 1935. Ueber Entomologische Sammlungen, Entomologen und Entomo-Museologie. Berlin : Dahlem vi 540 pp. 36 pls. [dated 1935–1937].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Common along rainforest margins on Torres Strait islands.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

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. [394] (biology)

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Nymphalidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 4 513-660 pp. [563]

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] [84] (biology)

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] [59] (description, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		18-Aug-2015	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED