Subspecies Libythea geoffroyi genia Waterhouse, 1938

Museums

Regional Maps

• Libythea geoffroy genia Waterhouse, G.A. 1938. Notes on Australian butterflies in the Australian Museum. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 20(3): 217-222 [218] [incorrect subsequent spelling of geoffroy as geoffroyi].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL04801 ♂ (Waterhouse in the original description mentioned a holotype), Wyndham, WA (both Wyndham, WA, and Darwin, NT, given in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL04802 ♀; AM KL04803 5♂ 1♀; AM KL04801 ♂, Wyndham, WA.

  Type locality references:

  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. [23] (gave the type locality as Wyndham, WA).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [414] (biology)

Johnson, S.J. 1993. Butterfly records of interest from northern Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 20(2): 75-76 [75]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		16-Jan-2014	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)