Subspecies Notocrypta waigensis proserpina (Butler, 1883)

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• Plesioneura proserpina Butler, A.G. 1883. The Lepidoptera collected during the recent expedition of H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 11: 402-428 [424].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Aru Ils, Indonesia (indicated in original description)
  Comment: Butler in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
• Plesioneura waigensis leucogaster Staudinger, O. 1889. Lepidopteren der Insel Palawan. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 2(1): 3-180 [155].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Cooktown and Herbert River, QLD (designated in original description); whereabouts unknown ♂
  Comment: Staudinger in the original description indicated that he had several specimens by giving two localities; 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 [290] (type specimen and sex information).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [110] (restricted the type locality to Cooktown, QLD, although both Cooktown and Herbert River, QLD, were given in the original description).
• Notocrypta waigensis ribbei Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 25(2–6): 9-79 pl. 1 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Kei Is., Indonesia (designated as Key Is. in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer mentioned a type in the original description.

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [110] (confirmed Kei Is. as the type locality).

 

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. [290]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Kei Islands).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [110] (synonymy, biology)

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] [214] (reference to Frühstorfer's 1911 work on Australian species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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