Species Liphyra brassolis Westwood, 1864
Moth Butterfly
Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement
- Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [422]
- Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [339]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Oriental Region from India through South-east Asia to the Moluccas, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville and Solomon Ils.
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 Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), 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
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal
- Indonesia
- Irian Jaya
- Maluku
- Papua New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
Oriental Region
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: myrmecophagous (host(s): Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius, 1775) [FORMICIDAE] Green Tree Ant).
Extra Ecological Information
Larvae feed exclusively on larvae of the Green Tree Ant, Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius, 1775), they are not attended by the ants and do not feed on ant pupae.
Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia
Liphyra brassolis brassolis Westwood, 1864
Liphyra brassolis Westwood, J.O. 1864. [Untitled note]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 2: 31 [31].
Type data: syntypes OUM sex unknown*; Westwood in the original description mentined two localities; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [338] (referred to a holotype, but knew of no specimen).
Type locality: Assam and Singapore (given in original description; Parsons op. cit. gave Regio Indica as the type locality).
General References
Samson, C. & Smart, P. 1980. A review of the genus Liphyra (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) of Indo-Australia, with descriptions of two new subspecies from the Solomon Archipelago. The Aurelian. A journal of Lepidoptera 1(4): 6-16 [11] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
History of changes
| 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 | LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 06-Sep-2017 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 06-Sep-2017 | LYCAENIDAE | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED |