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Species Junonia villida (Fabricius, 1787)

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Species Junonia villida (Fabricius, 1787)

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Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Fiji, Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Java), New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), apparently absent from the Lesser Sunda lIs, Timor and Maluku.


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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Norfolk Island
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
    • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
  • Fiji
  • Indonesia
    • Irian Jaya
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Western Samoa

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia
    • Java

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene [VERBENACEAE] Carpet Weed; Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) J.Vahl [SCROPHULARIACEAE] Jamaica Snakeweed; Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poit. [LAMIACEAE] Mint Bush; Centaurium spicatum (L.) Fritsch ex Janch. [GENTIANACEAE] Spike Centaury; Verbena bonariensis L. [VERBENACEAE]; Lantana camara L. [VERBENACEAE]; Phyla canescens Greene [VERBENACEAE]; Verbena sp. [VERBENACEAE]; Hygrophila angustifolia R.Br. [ACANTHACEAE]; Ruellia sp. [ACANTHACEAE]; Epaltes australis Less. [ASTERACEAE]; Evolvulus alsinoides L. [CONVOLVULACEAE]; Goodenia grandiflora Sieber ex Sims [GOODENIACEAE]; Goodenia sp. [GOODENIACEAE]; Scaevola aemula R.Br. [GOODENIACEAE]; Plantago spp. [PLANTAGINACEAE]; Plantago lanceolata L. [PLANTAGINACEAE]; Plantago major L. [PLANTAGINACEAE]; Portulaca oleracea L. [PORTULACACEAE]; Scabiosa atropurpurea L. [DIPSACACEAE]; Antirrhinum sp. [SCROPHULARIACEAE]; Russelia equisetiformis Schlecht. & Cham. [SCROPHULARIACEAE]; Veronica sp. [SCROPHULARIACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced plants include Scabiosa atropurpurea (Dipsacaceae), Plantago lanceolata, P. major (Plantaginaceae), Antirrhinum sp., Russelia equisetiformis, Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (Scrophulariaceae), Lantana camara, Phyla canescens, P. nodiflora, Verbena bonariensis (Verbenaceae).

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787)

Papilio villida Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2[2] 382 pp. [35].
Type data: holotype (probable) BMNH Rh8920 ♂*; Fabricius in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; described from the Banks collection, paratype(s) BMNH ♂* (Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Satyridae, Nymphalidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. [13] type specimen identifers); Gabriel, A.G. 1927. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum. Part III. Nymphalidae. London : British Museum 128 pp. [123] (listed a single specimen in the BMNH); Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [543] (listed a single specimen in the Banks collection and a later specimen in Kiel); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Satyridae, Nymphalidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. [13] (gave the type number and referred to a cotype which is inconsistent with Zimsen's comment); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [615] (referred to a holotype); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (the single Banksian specimen is accepted as a holotype).
Type locality: Tongatabu, Samoa (as Insula Amsterdam in original description), see 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 [publication date: 15 December 1932] [88] (publication date: 15 December 1932, see Atkins, A.F. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Hesperiidae. pp. 232–235, 357 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, V.R. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xiv 529 pp. [357]; referred to the type locality and mentioned that formerly the name had been misapplied to the Australian subspecies); Dugdale, J.S. 1988. Fauna of New Zealand Number 14. Lepidoptera-annotated catalogue, and keys to family-group taxa. Wellington : DSIR 1–262 pp. [137] (gave a different interpretation of the type locality).

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [402]

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] [521]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [615]

 

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)
07-Mar-2024 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023 PAPILIONOIDEA 22-Dec-2023 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 NYMPHALIDAE Rafinesque, 1815 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011 MOVED