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Species Junonia erigone (Cramer, 1775)

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Species Junonia erigone (Cramer, 1775)

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Distribution

States

Northern Territory


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—East Timor, Indonesia (including Irian Jaya, Maluku, West Timor), Papua New Guinea.


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

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N coastal
    • Queensland: Torres Strait Islands
  • East Timor
  • Indonesia
    • Irian Jaya
    • Maluku
    • West Timor
  • Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded.

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Junonia erigone erigone (Cramer, 1775)

Papilio erigone Cramer, P. 1775. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title]. Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild Vol. 1(1–7) 1–132 pls 1–84 pp. [issued 1775, dated 1775-1790] [97 pl. 62] [issued 1777, dated 1775–1790, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Opinion 516. Determination under the plenary powers of the relative precedence to be assigned to certain works on the Order Lepidoptera (Class Insecta) published in 1775 by Pieter Cramer, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller, Johann Christian Fabricius, Johann Casper Fuessly, and S.A. von Rottemburg respectively. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19: 1–44 [7]].
Type data: syntypes whereabouts unknown ♂*; Cramer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [613] (referred to a holotype but knew of no specimen although he gave the sex as male).
Type locality: East Indies (as Indes orientale in original description).

 

General References

Fruhstorfer, H. 1912. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Nymphalidae]. 453-536, 545-560 pls 115, 119, 123-138 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [Date published 1911-16] [publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279] [520]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [613]

Roepke, W.K.L. 1938. Rhopalocera Javanica, geïllustreerd overzicht der Dagvlinders van Java. Pt 3 pp. 235–362 pls 26–30. [263]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
04-Jun-2020 PAPILIONOIDEA 23-Apr-2020 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
05-Mar-2013 05-Mar-2013 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 30-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011 MOVED