Species Nacaduba biocellata (C. & R. Felder, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 13(4): 7-116 pl. 2 [87]
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [550]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Lesser Sunda Ils, New Caledonia, Vanuatu.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), 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), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • 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
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• New Caledonia
• Vanuatu

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Acacia decurrens Willd. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle; Acacia mearnsii De Wild. [FABACEAE] Black Wattle; Acacia salicina Lindley [FABACEAE] Cooba; Acacia conferta Benth. [FABACEAE] Crowded-leaf Wattle; Acacia stenophylla Benth. [FABACEAE] Dalby Myall; Acacia tetragonophylla F.Muell. [FABACEAE] Dead Finish; Acacia deanei (R.T.Baker) M.B.Welch, Coombs & McGlynn [FABACEAE] Deane's Wattle; Acacia bidwillii Benth. [FABACEAE] Dogwood; Acacia coriacea DC. [FABACEAE] Dogwood; Acacia pycnantha Benth. [FABACEAE] Golden Wattle; Acacia saligna (Labill.) H.L. Wendl. [FABACEAE] Golden Wreath Wattle; Acacia irrorata Sieber ex Spreng. [FABACEAE] Green Wattle; Acacia brachybotrya Benth. [FABACEAE] Grey Wattle; Acacia sclerophylla Lindley [FABACEAE] Hard-leaf Wattle; Acacia implexa Benth. [FABACEAE] Hickory Wattle; Acacia maidenii F.Muell. [FABACEAE] Maiden's Wattle; Acacia mangium Willd. [FABACEAE] Mangium; Acacia oswaldii F.Muell. [FABACEAE] Miljee; Acacia penninervis DC. [FABACEAE] Mountain Hickory; Acacia aneura Benth. [FABACEAE] Mulga; Acacia rigens G.Don. [FABACEAE] Needle Wattle; Acacia victoriae Benth. [FABACEAE] Prickly Wattle; Acacia quornensis J.Black [FABACEAE] Quorn Wattle; Acacia betchei Maiden & Blakely [FABACEAE] Red-tip Wattle; Acacia calamifolia Sweet ex Lindl. [FABACEAE] Reed-leaf Wattle; Acacia acradenia F.Muell. [FABACEAE] Silky Wattle; Acacia ligulata A.Cunn. ex Benth. [FABACEAE] Umbrella Bush; Acacia cyclops A.Cunn. ex G.Don [FABACEAE] Western Coastal Wattle; Acacia papyrocarpa Benth. [FABACEAE] Western Myall; Acacia retinodes Schldl. [FABACEAE] Wirilda; Acacia nematophylla F.Muell. ex Benth. [FABACEAE]; Acacia polystachya Benth. [FABACEAE]; Acacia anceps DC. [FABACEAE]; Acacia karroo Hayne [FABACEAE]; Acacia erinacea Benth. [FABACEAE]; Acacia halliana Maslin [FABACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Acacia karroo (Mimosaceae) is introduced.

 

General References

Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture B 44(Suppl.): 1-102 [22]

Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 13(4): 7-116 pl. 2 [87]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [231]

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. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [158]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
06-Sep-2017		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		20-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
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