Subspecies Nacaduba kurava felsina Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nacaduba perusia felsina 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] [96].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL23629 ♂, Darwin, NT (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL23630 1♀, Darwin, NT
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned three males and five females but did not refer to a type; 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. [28] (gave type specimen information).

  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.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, 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. [549]

Meyer, C.E. 1996. Notes on the life history of Nacaduba kurava felsina Waterhouse & Lyell (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 23: 73-74 [73] (biology)

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 [81]

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 [429]

 

History of changes

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