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Species Nacaduba kurava (Moore, 1858)

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Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Oriental Region.


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

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Indonesia
    • Irian Jaya
    • Maluku
  • Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A.Rich.) Radlk. [SAPINDACEAE] Beach Tamarind; Rapanea variabilis (R.Br.) Mez [MYRSINACEAE] Muttonwood; Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco [MYRSINACEAE] River Mangrove; Embelia curvinervia S.T.Reynolds [PRIMULACEAE]; Maesa dependens F.Muell. [MYRSINACEAE]; Maesa haplobotrys F.Muell. [MYRSINACEAE]).

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Nacaduba kurava kurava (Moore, 1858)

Lycaena kurava Moore, F. in Moore, F. in Horsfield, T. & Moore, F. 1858. A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. London : Wm. H. Allen and Co. Vol. 1 v 278 iv 11 pp. 18 pls [issued 1858, dated 1857] [22] [issued 1858, dated 1857, see Cowan, C.F. 1975. [publication dates] Horsfield, Moore, and the Catalogues of the East India Company Museum. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 7(3): 273–284 [273]; replacement name for the species misidentified by Horsfield, 1828 as Papilio aratus Cramer, 1782 and misspelled atratus by Horsfield].
Type data: holotype BMNH *; Moore in using the name referred to a single female from Horsfield's collection; Toxopeus, L.J. 1927. Lycaenidae Australasiae III. On Nacaduba kurava Moore and other species of Nacaduba (Lep. Lycaenidae). Treubia 9(4): 423–436 pl. 1 [423] (referred to a type female); Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 13(4): 7–116 pl. 2 [81] (referred to a type); 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. (Moore's (1858) reference to a single specimen is accepted as evidence of a holotype).
Type locality: Java (designated in original use of name).

 

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 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
20-Jun-2024 MODIFIED