Species Jalmenus daemeli Semper, 1879

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• Ialmenus daemeli Semper, G. 1879. Beitrag zur Rhopalocerenfauna von Australien. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg V(14): 138-194 pls 8, 9 [dated 1878] [166].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ ♀, Rockhampton, Gayndah, Peak Downs, QLD (mentioned in original description)
  Comment: Semper in the original description mentioned both sexes; Druce, H.H. 1902. On some new and little-known butterflies of the family Lycaenidae from the African, Australian and Oriental Regions. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902(1): 112–121 pls 11, 12 [120] (stated that he had the 'type specimens').

  Type locality references:

  Gabriel, A.G. 1932. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the Hill Museum. London : John Bale, Sons & Danielsson 40 pp. [33] (gave the type locality as Rockhampton, QLD); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 92 pp. [83] (Waterhouse's ms notes gave Peak Downs, QLD, as the locality for the specimen labelled as type male by Druce which should have been the specimen listed by Gabriel).
• Ialmenus illidgei Lucas, T.P. 1889. Six new species of Rhopalocera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland vi(4): 155-161 [156].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ ♀, Brisbane, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: Lucas in the original description mentioned both sexes but not a type.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Miskin, W.H. 1891. A synonymical catalogue of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera (Butterflies) of Australia with full bibliographical reference: including descriptions of some new species. Annals of the Queensland Museum 1: [i]-xx 1-[93] [i]-ix [68] (considered illidgei a synonym of ictinus, however, Waterhouse 1903, p. 257 referred to illidgei as a synonym of daemeli)
• Druce, H.H. 1902. On some new and little-known butterflies of the family Lycaenidae from the African, Australian and Oriental Regions. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902(1): 112-121 pls 11, 12 [120] (illidgei treated as a synonym of daemeli)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs from Cairns to Townsville, Hughenden W of Maryborough, QLD, to 72 km north of Narrabri, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Acacia decurrens Willd. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle; Acacia harpophylla F.Muell. ex Benth. [FABACEAE] Brigalow; Acacia bidwillii Benth. [FABACEAE] Dogwood; Acacia irrorata Sieber ex Spreng. [FABACEAE] Green Wattle; Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE] Gum Tree; Acacia leucoclada Tind. [FABACEAE] Northern Silver Wattle; Heterodendrum diversifolium F.Muell. [SAPINDACEAE] Scrub Boonaree; Acacia neriifolia Benth. [FABACEAE] Silver Wattle; Acacia pendula A.Cunn. ex G.Don [FABACEAE] Weeping Myall; Acacia macradenia Benth. [FABACEAE] Zig-zag Wattle; Acacia bancroftiorum Maiden [FABACEAE]; Eucalyptus melanophloia F.Muell. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [502]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [378]

Macqueen, J. 1965. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 4: 56-57 [57]

Pierce, N.E. & Nash, D.R. 1999. The Imperial Blue, Jalmenus evagoras (Lycaenidae). pp. 279-315 in Kitching, R.L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R.L. & Pierce, N.E. (eds). Biology of Australian Butterflies. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xvi 395 pp. [280] (phylogeny)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [257]

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] [190]

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] [128]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
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