Genus Libythea Fabricius, 1807

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• Libythea Fabricius, J.C. 1807. Systema glossatorum. In Illiger, Die neueste Gattungs-Eintheilung der Schmetterlinge aus den Linnéischen Gattungen Papilio und Sphinx. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 6: 279-289 [284].

  Type species:

   Papilio celtis Laicharting, 1782 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [440]; Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [257] (discussed the validity of Latreille's type selections).
• Hecaerge Ochsenheimer, F. 1816. Die Schmetterlinge von Europa. Leipzig : Fleisher Vol. 4 223 pp. [32] [junior objective synonym of Libythea Fabricius, 1807].

  Type species:

   Papilio celtis Laicharting, 1782 by monotypy.
• Chilea Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Stockholm : Typis Gadelianis 4 unnumbered + 138 pp. [In Latin] [79] [unnecessary replacement name for Libythea Fabricius, 1807].

  Type species:

   Papilio celtis Laicharting, 1782 by indication.
• Hypatus Hübner, J. 1822. Systematisch-alphabetisches Verzeichniss aller bisher bey den Fürbildungen zur Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge angegebenen Gattungsbenennungen; mit Vormerkung auch augsburgischer Gattungen. Augsburg : Hübner vi 81 pp. [3] [junior objective synonym of Libythea Fabricius, 1807].

  Type species:

   Papilio celtis Laicharting, 1782 by monotypy.
• Dichora Scudder, S.H. 1889. The fossil butterflies of Florissant. Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey 8(1): 433-470 pls 52-53 [470] [junior homonym of Dichora Paetel, 1875 (Mollusca); Neave, S.A. 1939–1940. Nomenclator Zoologicus: A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the End of 1935. London : The Zoological Society of London Vol. 1–4 (71) homonymy].

  Type species:

   Libythea labdaca Westwood, 1851 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.L. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. East Melbourne : CSIRO Publications xi 803 pp. [Date published 31 December 1995] [471]
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [247]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

General References

Ackery, P.R. 1984. Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London, no. 11. Part 1 Systematics. pp. 9-21 in Vane-Wright, R.I. & Ackery, P.R. (eds). The Biology of Butterflies. London : Academic Press 429 pp. [19]

Ackery, P.R. 1988. Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 33: 95-203 [175] (extensive bibliography)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [413]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [483]

Shields, O. 1984. A revised, annotated checklist of the world Libytheidae. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 22(4): 264-266 [264]

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] [67]

 

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