Subspecies Nesoxenica leprea leprea (Hewitson, 1864)
- Lasiommata leprea Hewitson, W.C. 1864. Descriptions of new species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2(3): 245-249 pls 15-16 [249 pl. 16 figs 6, 7].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Mt Wellington, about 2500 ft, TAS (Australia in original description)
Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp. [119] (listed two specimens in the Hewitson collection); Riley, N.D. & Gabriel, A.G. 1924. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum. Part I. Satyrinae. London : British Museum 62 pp. [31] (listed a single type in the BMNH and gave type information); Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. 90: 1–33 [20] (referred to a holotype female in the BMNH).Type locality references:
Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [21] (designated Mt Wellington, about 2500 ft, TAS, as the type locality).
Distribution
States
Tasmania
Extra Distribution Information
S, central plateau and NW TAS.
Australian Endemic.
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)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Tasmania
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. [352] (as Nesoxenica leprea (Hewitson, 1864), biology)
Couchman, L.E. 1946. Notes on the Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1945: 49-53 [49]
Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [20]
Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Satyridae]. 285-401 pls 87-99 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279] [304] (incorrect subsequent spelling as lepera)
Turner, A.J. 1926. New and little-known Tasmanian Lepidoptera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1925: 81-117 [81] (biology)
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] [120]
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] [35] (as Nesoxenica leprea (Hewitson, 1864), description, distribution)
History of changes
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