Subspecies Hypolimnas antilope mela Fruhstorfer, 1903

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• Hypolimnas antilope mela Fruhstorfer, 1903.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (Parsons (1998) indicated that a syntype male was from Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea.), Kiriwina Island, PNG.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fruhstorfer, H. 1903. Neue Hypolimnas und Uebersicht der bekannten Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 48(1–2): 73-87
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.

Introduction

Meyer et al. (2022) recorded this species from mainland Australia for the first time, based on a single male collected from Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, QLD on 6 April 2021. The specimen was provisionally assigned to subspecies H. antilope mela Fruhstorfer, 1903, which occurs widely on mainland New Guinea and its adjacent eastern islands. Within Australian limits the species was previously known only from the northern Torres Strait islands.

Distribution

General References

Meyer, C.E., Brown, S.S. & Weir, R.P. 2022. The first record of Hypolimnas antilope (Cramer, [1777]) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae) from mainland Australia. Australian Entomologist 49(1): 73-80

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