Subspecies Ocybadistes ardea ardea Bethune-Baker, 1906

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• Ocybadistes ardea Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1906. Descriptions of African Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 339-346 [343].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (Bethune-Baker in the original description referred to a type), Fakfak, Irian Jaya (as Dutch New Guinea; indicated in original description)
  Comment: 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 [367] (indicated sex and location of the type specimen).
• Apaustus heterobathra Lower, O.B. 1908. Descriptions of new Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 311-317 [316].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂, Kuranda, QLD (Lower in original description listed Mackay, Kuranda, Cooktown and Cape York, QLD).
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♀
  Comment: Lower in the original description mentioned types Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the type specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the museums in Australia, with special reference to those in the South Australian Museum. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 5(1): 49–62 [60].

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the type specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the museums in Australia, with special reference to those in the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(1): 49-62 [60] (restricted the type locality to Kuranda, QLD).
• Taractrocera udraka Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 24(3–5): 58-104 [96].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Papua New Guinea (as Deutsch [German] Neu Guinea; designated in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
• Padraona ardea Rothschild, L.W. 1915. On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A.S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier, and Vulcan Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 22: 192-208, 387-442 [400] [junior secondary homonym and junior synonym of Ocybadistes ardea Bethune-Baker, 1906 (Lepidoptera)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Rothschild in the original description referred to a type), Karkar Is. (as Dampier Is.), Papua New Guinea (designated in original description)
  Comment: 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 [367] (location of the holotype).
• Ocybadistes ardea lucia Evans, W.H. 1934. Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies. The Entomologist 67: 148-151 [150].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Aru Ils, Indonesia (designated in original description)
  Comment: Evans in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.

 

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. [367]
• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp. (for Apaustus heterobathra Lower, 1908)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya, Kei Islands), Papua New Guinea.

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

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1906. Descriptions of African Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18: 339-346 [243] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Ocybadistes as Oxybadistes)

Lambkin, T.A. & Knight, A.I. 1990. Butterflies recorded from Murray Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 17(4): 101-112 [101, 102] (compared Ocybadistes ardea heterobathra (Lower, 1908) with Ocybadistes ardea ardea Bethune-Baker, 1906)

Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [154] (Apaustus heterobathra in new combination as Padraona heterobathra (Lower, 1908))

Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Notes on the type specimens of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) in the museums in Australia, with special reference to those in the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(1): 49-62 [60] (Apaustus heterobathra as Padraona heterobathra (Lower, 1908), description)

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] [202] (Apaustus heterobathra as Padraona heterobathra (Lower, 1908), description)

 

History of changes

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