Genus Neopithecops Distant, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Neopithecops Distant, W.L. 1884. Rhopalocera Malayana: a Description of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Penang : W. L. Distant, care of West Newman & Co. xvi 482 [4] pp. 46 pls. [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 [342] (gave publication date as 31 May 1884)] [209].

  Type species:

   Pithecops dharma Moore, 1881 by original designation.
• Parapithecops Moore, F. 1884. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Asiatic diurnal Lepidoptera. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 53(2): 1-42 [publication date] [20].

  Type species:

   Parapithecops gaura Moore, 1884 by monotypy.
• Papua Röber, J.K.M. 1892. Die Familien und Gattungen der Tagfalter systematisch und analytisch bearbeitet von Dr. E. Schatz. pp. 225-284 in Staudinger, O. & Schatz, E. (eds). Exotische Schmetterlinge. Fürth, Bavaria : G. Löwensohn Vol. II 284 pp. [273] [a junior homonym of Papua Ragonot, 1889].

  Type species:

   Plebeius lucifer Röber, 1886 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• De Nicéville, L. 1890. The Butterflies of India Burmah & Ceylon. New Delhi, India : A. J. Reprints Agency Vol. 3 xi 503 pp. 6 pls. [51] (synonymy of Parapithecops and Neopithecops)
• Fruhstorfer, H. 1919. Revision der Artengruppe Pithecops auf Grund der Morphologie der Klammerorgane. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 83(1): 77-84 [77] (synonymy of Papua and Neopithecops)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Kei Islands
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

General References

Cowan, C.F. 1966. The nomenclature of Pithecops corvus and allied species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 8: 421-425 [423] (nomenclature)

Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 28(6): 371-505 [449]

Eliot, J.N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue Butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. London : British Museum 309 pp. [40]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [461]

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] [74]

 

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