Subspecies Hypolimnas anomala albula (Wallace, 1869)
- Diadema albula Wallace, A.R. 1869. Notes on eastern butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 17: 77-81, 277-288, 321-349 [287].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH Rh8811 ♂, Timor (designated in original description)
Comment: Wallace in the original description mentioned both sexes.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—East Timor, Indonesia (West Timor), has not been found in New Guinea.
IBRA
NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- East Timor
- Indonesia
- West Timor
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
Anon. 1979. Female butterfly guarding eggs. Antenna 3(3): 94 [94]
Braby, M.F. 2010. The merging of taxonomy and conservation biology: a synthesis of Australian butterfly systematics (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 2707: 1-76 [Date published 3 Dec 2010] [64] (stat. rev.)
Common, I.F.B. 1978. The distinction between Hypolimnas antilope (Cramer) and H. anomala (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), and the occurrence of H. anomala in Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 5(3): 41-44 [41]
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1972. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 498 pp. 41 pls. [290] (as Hypolimnas antilope albula (Wallace, 1869), biology)
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [395] (biology)
Gibb, W.F. 1977. The rediscovery of Hypolimnas antilope (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 4(2): 39 [39] (subsequently identified as Hypolimnas anomala albula (Wallace, 1869))
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] [85] (as Hypolimnas antilope albula (Wallace, 1869), 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] [60] (as Hypolimnas antilope albula (Wallace, 1869), description, distribution)
Wood, G.A. 1987. New and interesting butterfly records from Northern Queensland and Torres Strait. Australian Entomological Magazine 14(4–5): 71-72 [72] (distribution)
History of changes
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05-Apr-2011 | MOVED |