Bibliography for Nymphalini

• Ackery, P.R. 1988. Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 33: 95-203
• Alcock, J. & Gwynne, D. 1988. The mating system of Vanessa kershawi: males defend landmark territories as mate encounter sites. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 26(1–4): 116-124
• Barrett, C. & Burns, A.N. 1951. Butterflies of Australia and New Guinea. Melbourne : N.H. Seward x 187 pp.
• Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]]
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• Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33
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• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April]
• Fabricius, J.C. 1807. Systema glossatorum. In Illiger, Die neueste Gattungs-Eintheilung der Schmetterlinge aus den Linnéischen Gattungen Papilio und Sphinx. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 6: 279-289
• Field, W.D. 1971. Butterflies of the genus Vanessa and of the resurrected genera Bassaris and Cynthia (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 84: 1-105
• Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp.
• Fric, Z., Konvicka, M. and Zrzavy, J. 2004. Red & black or black & white? Phylogeny of the Araschnia butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and evolution of seasonal polyphenism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17: 265–278
• Fruhstorfer, H. 1912. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Nymphalidae]. 453-536, 545-560 pls 115, 119, 123-138 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [Date published 1911-16] [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]
• Fruhstorfer, H. 1913. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Nymphalidae]. pp. 537-544, 561-704 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp.
• Gibbs, G.W. 1980. New Zealand Butterflies. Identification and Natural History. Auckland : Collins 207 pp.
• Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1830. Insectes. pls 1–2, 13–17 in Duperrey, L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. Atlas. Paris : Bertrand. [issued 1830, dated 1826]
• Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1838. Crustacés, Arachnides et Insectes. pp. xii 9–320 in Duperrey, L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie I. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 2 Pt 2.
• Huang, H. 2000. A list of butterflies collected from Tibet during 1993–1996, with new descriptions, revisional notes and discussion on zoogeography – 1. Lambillionea, Revue Internationale d'Entomologie 50: 141-158
• Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826]
• Hübner, J. 1821. Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge. Augsburg : Jacob Hübner (and by Geyer after Hübner's death). 2 pp. pls [11] [13] [24] … [117] [122] [147] [150] [164] [183] [195] [197] [212] [213] [214]. [this work is the subject of Opinion 276, ICZN, and is on the Offical List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature; issued 1821, dated 1806]
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1944. Opinion 156. Suspension of the Rules for Vanessa Fabricius, 1807 (Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2: 239-250
• James, D.G. 1987. Effects of temperature and photoperiod on the development of Vanessa kershawi McCoy and Junonia villida Godart (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26: 289-292
• Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst viii 690 pp.
• Latreille, P.A. 1804. Tableau méthodique des insectes. pp. 129-200 in Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs, Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture et à l'économie rurale et domestique. Tome XXIV. [Section 3:] tableaux méthodiques d'histoire naturelle. Déterville : Paris. pp. 84 + 4 + 85 + 238 + 18 + 34.
• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp.
• McCoy, F. 1868. The Australian representative of Cynthia cardui. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 1: 76
• Meredith, L.A. 1891. Bush Friends in Tasmania, Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, Drawn from Nature, with Free Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse. Last Series. London : Macmillan vi 83 pp. 12 pls.
• Miskin, W.H. 1874. Note on Mynes guerini Wallace. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1874: 237-240
• Miskin, W.H. 1889. Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Australian Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3(4): 1514-1520 [publication date: Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925)]
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• Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.
• Olliff, A.S. 1888. On two instances of colour variation in butterflies. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 3(3): 1250-1252, 1 text-fig
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.
• Rennie, J. 1832. A Conspectus of the Butterflies and Moths Found in Britain; with their English and systematic names, times of appearance, sizes, colours, their caterpillars, and various localities. London : William Orr xxxiii [iii] 287 pp.
• Scudder, S.H. 1889. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada with Special Reference to New England. Cambridge, Mass. : Scudder Vol. 1 xxiv 766 pp.
• Smithers, C.N. 1969. A note on migrations of Vanessa kershawi (McCoy) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Australia. The Australian Zoologist 15(2): 188-194
• Sodoffsky, [Sodovskii] C.H.W. 1837. Etymologische Untersuchungen ueber die Gattungsnamen der Schmetterlinge. Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de Moscou 1837(6): [76]-[99] (separate paginated 1, 4-24)
• Van Son, G. 1966. The nomenclatural status of Vanessa kershawi (McCoy) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 5: 66
• Wallace, A.R. 1869. Notes on eastern butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 17: 77-81, 277-288, 321-349
• 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]
• 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]

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