Subspecies Nesoxenica leprea elia Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

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Subspecies Nesoxenica leprea elia Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

Nesoxenica leprea elia 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] [36 figs 132, 133].
Type data:
Lectotype AM KL02177 ♂, Mt Dundas, TAS (Waterhouse & Lyell gave Mt Dundas and Mt Magnet, TAS, in original description).
Paralectotype(s) AM KL02178 1♀, Mt Dundas, TAS; whereabouts unknown 20♂
Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned 21 males and 19 females.
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. [20] (restricted the type locality to Mt Dundas, TAS).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Central highlands and W TAS.

Australian Endemic.

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

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)