Subspecies Ocybadistes flavovittatus flavovittatus (Latreille, 1824)

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• Hesperia flavovittata Latreille, P.A. 1824. Zoologie. Vol. 9 Pt 2 pp. 706–707 711–793 in Latreille, P.A. & Godart, J.B. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. [dated 1819] [768].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Sydney, NSW (Latreille gave type locality as Nouvelle-Hollande (Australia))
  Comment: Latreille in the original description mentioned that he had several specimens sent by Mr Macleay.

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Australian Hesperiidae. IV. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 58(5–6): 461-466 [465] (restricted the type locality to Sydney, NSW); 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. [365] (gave New Holland).
• Padraona hespera hespera Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. II. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(3–4): 218-238 [233].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL11926 ♂, Sydney, NSW (Waterhouse recorded the paralectotypic series as coming from `as far north as Brisbane and from Tasmania').
  Paralectotype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀, Sydney, NSW
  Comment: Waterhouse referred in the original description to several specimens.

  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. [16] (gave type location and restricted type locality to Sydney, NSW).
• Ocybadistes flavovittata ceres Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Australian Hesperiidae. IV. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 58(5–6): 461-466 [465].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL11877 ♂, Kuranda, QLD (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL11878 1♀, Kuranda, QLD; AM KL11879 ♂; AM KL11880 ♂; AM KL11879 1♂, Kuranda, QLD; AM KL11880 1♂, Kuranda, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described but clearly had several.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Australian Hesperiidae. IV. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 58(5–6): 461-466 [464]
• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp. (for Ocybadistes flavovittata ceres Waterhouse, 1933)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

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. [197] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. II. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(3–4): 218-238 [231] (discussed the complicated history of the name flavovittata and the various species to which the name has been applied)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Australian Hesperiidae. IV. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 58(5–6): 461-466 [464] (clarified and corrected Waterhouse's earlier paper)

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 [121] (discussed the complicated history of the name flavovittata and the various species to which the name has been applied)

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] [203] (description, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
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