Subspecies Jamides cyta claudia (Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914)
Pale Cerulean
- Pepliophorus amphissa claudia 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] [102].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV T14459 1♂, Claudie River, QLD (designated in original description); NMV T14460 1♀
Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned six males and five females; Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [29] (did not list any types in the AM; the NMV web site listed two syntypes).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
In Australia known only from Iron Range, QLD.
Australian Endemic.
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
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
Wood, G.A. 1987. The life history of Jamides cytus claudia (Waterhouse & Lyell (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Lycaeninae). Queensland Naturalist 28: 52-54 [52] (biology)
History of changes
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