Genus Toxidia Mabille, 1891

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Regional Maps

• Telesto Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [164] [junior homonym of Telesto Lamouroux, 1812 (Coelenterata) and Telesto Rafinesque, 1814 (Crustacea); Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Suppl. 9: 1–509 (432); Neave, S.A. 1939–1940. Nomenclator Zoologicus: A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the End of 1935. London : The Zoological Society of London Vol. 1–4 (415) homonymy].

  Type species:

   Hesperia peron Latreille, 1824 by monotypy.
• Toxidia Mabille. P. 1891. Description d'Hespérides nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 35: LIX-LXXXVIII, CVI-CXXI CLXVIII-CCXXII [LXXX].

  Type species:

   Toxidia thyrrhus Mabille, 1891 by monotypy.
• Oxytoxia Mabille, P. 1904. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam. Hesperidae. Genera Insectorum 17: 1-210, pls 1-4 (1903-1904) [93].

  Type species:

   Telesto doubledayi Felder, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Lindsey, A.W. 1925. The types of Hesperioid genera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 18(1): 75-106 [95]; Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [329] (discussed selection of type species, note text correction: 'Felder cited three nominal species belonging to this genus …' should read 'Mabille cited …').
• Neohesperilla 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] [193] [name introduced in a key to genera on p. 174 fig. AJ 9, described on p.193].

  Type species:

   Hesperilla croceus Miskin, 1889 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [214]
• Toussaint, E.F.A., Braby, M.F., Müller, C.J., Petrie, E.A. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2022. Molecular phylogeny, systematics and generic classification of the butterfly subfamily Trapezitinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Hesperiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 1407–1421 [Date published August 2022]

 

Introduction

Toussaint et al. (2022) revised the higher classification of the Trapezitinae based on a robust molecular phylogeny which resulted in a number of nomenclatural changes concerning genera, species and subspecies. These nomenclatural changes include the synonymy of the genus Neohesperilla Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 under Toxidia Mabille, 1891.

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NT, Qld: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP) ; NT, Qld, WA: Northern Kimberley (NK)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [137]

Johnson, S.J., Valentine, P.S. & Lane, D.A. 1994. Notes on life histories and biology of the species of Neohesperilla Waterhouse and Lyell (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Australian Entomologist 21(2): 55-59

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [155]

Toussaint, E.F.A., Braby, M.F., Müller, C.J., Petrie, E.A. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2022. Molecular phylogeny, systematics and generic classification of the butterfly subfamily Trapezitinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Hesperiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 1407–1421 [Date published August 2022]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	12-Jan-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		07-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)