Subspecies Neptis praslini staudingereana de Nicéville, 1898
Black And White Aeroplane
- Neptis staudingereana de Nicéville, L. 1898. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan, and Austro-Malayan, and Australian regions. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12(1): 131-161 [138].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Northern Australia (in original description); whereabouts unknown ♀
Comment: de Nicéville based the name on references to two figures, one of which he published himself (a male) in de Nicéville, L. 1897. Description of Neptis praslini Boisduval, and some species allied to it. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 66(2): 533–541, the other (a female) published by Staudinger, O. in Staudinger, O. & Schatz, E. 1884. Exotische Schmetterlinge. Fürth, Bavaria : G. Löwensohn Vol. 1(1–6) 3–38 pls 1–38 pp. [publication date: Moulds, M.S. 1977. Bibliography of the Australian Butterflies. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea 1773–1973. Greenwich, N.S.W. : Australian Entomological Press 239 pp.]); Eliot, J.N. 1969. An analysis of the Eurasian and Australian Neptini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 15: 1–156 pls 1–3 [51] (specified the sexes of these).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
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
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. [385] (description, distribution)
Eliot, J.N. 1969. An analysis of the Eurasian and Australian Neptini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 15: 1-156 pls 1-3 [51]
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] [81]
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] [52] (description, distribution)
Wood, G.A. 1987. The life history of Neptis praslini straudingereana de Niceville (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 14(3): 43-44 [43] (biology)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Mar-2013 | 05-Mar-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED |