Species Jamides amarauge H.H. Druce, 1891

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Species Jamides amarauge H.H. Druce, 1891

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Jamides amarauge Druce, H.H. 1891. On the Lycaenidae of the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3: 357-373 [366].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Alu Is. (near Shortland Is.), Solomon Islands. Alu Is. (near Shortland Is.), Guadalcanar Is. and Florida Is. (all mentioned in original description)
Comment: Druce in the original description mentioned both sexes and three localities.
Type locality references:
Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [448] (restricted the type locality to Alu Is. (near Shortland Is.), Solomon Islands).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
Indonesia
- Irian Jaya
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded from Australia, but in mainland New Guinea, larvae feed on the flowers of the vine Pueraria lobata (Fabaceae), a species which also occurs in northern QLD.