Subspecies Jalmenus inous inous Hewitson, 1865

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ialmenus inous Hewitson, W.C. 1865. Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera. Lycaenidae. Text. London : John van Voorst Vol. 1(2) 37-76 pp. [54 pl. 24 figs 1-2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Perth, WA (Swan River, WA, given in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; the material was in the Hewitson collection; Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp. [150] (listed four specimens in the Hewitson collection); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 92 pp. [85] (recorded that Kirby's specimen No. 3 from the Hewitson collection was marked as a type but this was unpublished).

  Type locality references:

  Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp.; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 92 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs in the coastal and sub-coastal areas from Cape Le Grande 30 km SE of Esperance to north of Wanneroo, WA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: attendant ants, herbivore.

 

General References

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)

 

History of changes

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