• Ogyris Angas, G.F. 1847. South Australia Illustrated. London : Thomas McLean 60 pls, in colour, with descriptive text. [pl. 37] [prior to 1996 all references refer to Ogyris Westwood; Ogyris Westwood is objectively a different genus with a different type species but is currently regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Ogyris Angas].

  Type species:

   Ogyris amaryllis Hewitson, 1862 by subsequent monotypy, see Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. Notes and remarks on South Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 281-286 [285]; Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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. [360].
• Ogyris Westwood, J.O. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1851. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 pp. 327-466 pls 59, 67. [issued 1851, dated 1850-1852] [472].

  Type species:

   Ogyris abrota Westwood, 1851 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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. [250]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Confined to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Papua New Guinea

General References

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [269]

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386-390 [386]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [471]

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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. [250]

Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 28(6): 371-505 [431]

Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [187]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [395]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(3): 331-342 [334]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [243]

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] [115]

History of changes

• Ogyris abrota Westwood, J.O. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1851. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 pp. 327-466 pls 59, 67. [issued 1851, dated 1850-1852] [472 pl. 75 fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia (Hunter River and Port Stevens, NSW, listed in original description but these applied to the undescribed males; female listed by Doubleday as coming from Australia)
  Comment: Westwood in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described but he mentioned both sexes and two localities; Doubleday, E. 1847. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Pt II. London : British Museum 1–57 pp. [20] (listed four specimens in the BMNH, one under abrota (the female) and three under damo (the male)); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (neither Doubleday nor Westwood described the male and the validity of the name depends on the illustration by Westwood of the female; Doubleday's list provides evidence that there was only one female and this is here regarded as a holotype).

  Type locality references:

  Doubleday, E. 1847. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Part 2 57 pp.; Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema congener Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Muellerina celastroides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Muellerina eucalyptoides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1894. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 2. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. pp. 79-129. [109]

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [281]

Burns, A.N. 1931. Habits and life histories of some Victorian lycaenid butterflies. Victorian Naturalist 48: 129-136 [132] (biology)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [481]

Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [196]

Rainbow, W.J. 1907. A Guide to the Study of Australian Butterflies. Melbourne : T.C. Lothian 272 pp. [139]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [247]

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] [118]

History of changes

• Ogyris aenone Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(3): 331-342 [339 pl. xiv. fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL19853 ♂ (Waterhouse in the original description stated that it was described from a single male), Cooktown, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: 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. [26] (type information; the allotype described by Waterhouse in 1903 has no status).

  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.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs on Horn and Thursday Ils, Tozers Gap, near Cooktown, Cairns, Cardwell and Bluewater north-west of Townsville

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: attendant ants, herbivore (associated flora: Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Diplatia furcata Barlow [LORANTHACEAE]; Diplatia tomentosa Barlow [LORANTHACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Immature stages attended by the ant Anonychomyrma inclinata Lewis & Sands, 2021

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F. & Mikheyev, A. 2023. Systematics of the Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902) complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): threatened Australian butterflies of national conservation significance. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 457–497

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [488]

Macqueen, J. 1965. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 4: 56-57 [57]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [246]

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] [179]

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] [116]

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [491]
• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Grey Mistletoe; Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE] Needle-leaf Mistletoe; Amyema fitzgeraldii (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE] Pincushion Mistletoe; Amyema linophylla (Fenzl) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Slender Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe; Amyema preissii (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Wire-leaf Mistletoe; Amyema lucasii (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE] Yellow-flowered Mistletoe; Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema thalassia Barlow [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema congener Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema mackayensis (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema maidenii (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema melaleucae (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema miraculosa (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Atsatt, P.R. 1981. Ant-dependent food plant selection by the Mistletoe Butterfly Ogyris amaryllis (Lycaenidae). Oecologia (Berlin) 48: 60-63 [60] (biology)

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [287]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [491]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(3): 331-342 [336]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [417]

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] [116]

History of changes

• Ogyris amaryllis Hewitson, W.C. 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London : British Museum iii 15 pp., 8 pls. [3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; described from specimen(s) in the BMNH and not Hewitson's collection so the specimens listed by Kirby (1879) cannot be types.
• Ogyris catharina Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. 2. Abtheilung 2, Heft 2. Vienna : Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 137-378 pls 22-47. [for publication date: Higgins (1963: 159), see Fletcher (1979)] [218].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♂, Australia (in original description)
  Comment: the Felders in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 59(5–6): 416–420 [418] (mentioned a type but in a negative sense and this cannot be taken as a lectotype designation); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101–133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [119] (discussed a specimen then in the Tring Museum labelled as catharina but concluded that as it did not fit the description it could not be a type); Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249–254, 360–363 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 529 pp. [361] (discussed the identity of catharina and indicated that a type had not yet been found).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938]; Burns, A.N. 1948. New geographical races of Australian butterflies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 15: 86-102 pls 3-8 figs 1-5 [issued 1948, dated 1947] [94] (on his map indicated an origin in the Riverina of NSW but this was unsubstantiated); Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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. [361] (discussed possible localities where the Felders material may have originated); Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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.
• Ogyris amata Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [417].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL19983 ♂ (Waterhouse in the original description mentioned a holotype), junction of the Murrumbidgee and Cotter Rivers, ACT (indicated in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL19983 5♂ 3♀, Canberra, ACT
  Comment: 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. [26] (holotype information).

  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. [26] (gave the label data of the holotype as Canberra, ACT); 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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [418]
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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. [361]
• Braby, M.F. 2010. The merging of taxonomy and conservation biology: a synthesis of Australian butterfly systematics (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 2707: 1-76 [Date published 3 Dec 2010]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs on the coast and tablelands, from Nambour, QLD, to Moruya, NSW, including Stanthorpe, QLD, and Armidale, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

General References

Burns, A.N. 1948. New geographical races of Australian butterflies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 15: 86-102 pls 3-8 figs 1-5 [issued 1948, dated 1947] [94]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [491]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [374]

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] [117]

History of changes

• Ogyris hewitsoni Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(3): 331-342 [338].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL19917 ♂, Townsville, QLD (Waterhouse in original description specifically mentioned Townsville, QLD, Victoria and South Australia; he also stated that it occurred 'all through Australia').
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL19918 1♀, Townsville, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description described both sexes and implied that he had many specimens, but did not mention a type; Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 59(5–6): 416–420 [417] (mentioned types and this cannot be a lectotype designation).

  Type locality references:

  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] [116] (treated as hewitsoni only specimens from northern coastal QLD, but did not mention a type or type locality; other specimens included in 1902 they placed in meridionalis Bethune Baker); Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420; 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. [26] (restricted the type locality to Townsville, QLD).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs from Cairns to Tin Can Bay south of Maryborough, inland to Gayndah, and Mt Larcom, QLD, and near Darwin and the Flinders Peninsula, NT.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

General References

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [285]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [494]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [246]

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] [181]

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] [116]

History of changes

• Ogyris meridionalis Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [286].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Victoria (in original description)
  Comment: Bethune-Baker in the original description mentioned both sexes but not a type.

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [417] (restricted the type locality to Birchip, VIC).
• Ogyris hewitsoni parsonsi Angel, F.M. 1951. Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Northern Territory of Australia with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 74 1: 6-15 [9].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Aileron, NT (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) SAMA 1♀, Aileron, NT
  Comment: Angel in the original description designated a holotype, he mentioned a type pair and this excluded other specimens mentioned from the paratypic series.
• Ogyris hopensis Burns, A.N. 1948. New geographical races of Australian butterflies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 15: 86-102 pls 3-8 figs 1-5 [issued 1948, dated 1947] [93].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV T14466 1♂, Mt Hope, VIC (designated in original description); NMV T14467 1♀; NMV T3481 1♀; NMV T3482 1♀; NMV T3479 1♂; NMV T3480 1♂; NMV T14457 sex unknown; NMV T14458 sex unknown
  Comment: Burns in the original description mentioned types; the NMV web site listed a 'holotype', an 'allotype' and six 'paratypes'.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs over most of inland Australia.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

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. [493]

Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [203]

McCubbin, C. 1971. Australian Butterflies. Melbourne : Nelson xxxi 206 pp. [82]

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] [117]

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

Introduction

Ogyris arcana was originally described as a subspecies of O. otanes (C. & R. Felder, 1865) based on morphological characters. Schmidt et al. (2014) investigated the systematic relationships of the Ogyris idmo complex based on three genes (nuclear EF1a and two mtDNA, COI and cytB). They also investigated the evolution of myrmecophily and estimated divergence times in relation to arid Nullarbor Plain as a major biogeographical barrier dividing taxa of the mesic biome in south-eastern and south-western Australia. Beaver et al. (2023a) revised the taxonomy of the complex based on Schmidt's molecular data, adult morphology and other evidence, and recognised O. arcana M.R. Williams & Hay, 2001 as a species distinct from O. otanes (C. & R. Felder, 1865), with two subspecies: O. arcana arcana M.R. Williams & Hay, 2001, and O. arcana sublustris M.R. Williams & Hay, 2001.

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

Schmidt, D.J., Grund ,R., Williams, M.R. & Hughes, J.M. 2014. Australian parasitic Ogyris butterflies: east-west divergence of highly-specialized relicts. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 111: 473-484

Williams, M.R. & Hay, R.W. 2001. Two new subspecies of Ogyris otanes C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 28: 55-63

History of changes

• Ogyris otanes arcana Williams & Hay, 2001.

  Type locality references:

  Williams, M.R. & Hay, R.W. 2001. Two new subspecies of Ogyris otanes C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 28: 55-63.

History of changes

• Ogyris otanes sublustris Williams, M.R. & Hay, R.W. 2001. Two new subspecies of Ogyris otanes C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 28: 55-63.

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Tindale, N.B. 1952. A new butterfly of the Genus Ogyris (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera) from Whyalla, S. Aust. South Australian Naturalist 27(2): 31-33 [31]
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [484]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Grey Mistletoe; Amyema miraculosa (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [285]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [484]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [248]

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] [185]

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] [119]

History of changes

• Ogyris barnardi Miskin, W.H. 1890. A revision of the Australian Genus Ogyris with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 23-28 [27].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM T12426 1♂, Dawson River, QLD (designated in original description); QM T12427 1♀
  Comment: Miskin in the original description mentioned both sexes but not a type; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [525] (type information).

  Type locality references:

  Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519-528; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519-528 [525].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

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. [484]

History of changes

• Ogyris barnardi delphis Tindale, N.B. 1952. A new butterfly of the Genus Ogyris (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera) from Whyalla, S. Aust. South Australian Naturalist 27(2): 31-33 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T3473 ♂ (Tindale in the original description designated a holotype), Whyalla, SA (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) SAMA I19098 1♀, Wyalla, SA; NMV T3476 1♂, Wyalla, SA; NMV T3475 1♂, Wyalla, SA; NMV T3474 1♂, Wyalla, SA; SAMA 1♂ 1♀, Brewarrina, NSW
  Comment: the NMV web site listed types from the F.E. Wilson collection now in the NMV.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs from Wilpena in the Flinders Ranges to Whyalla and 30 km NE of Kimba on the northern Eyre Peninsula, SA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

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. [485]

Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [199]

History of changes

• Ogyris caelestia Beaver & Braby, 2023.
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CF5DF1EB-B080-49AA-A386-32CD0D 8EC43A

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (emg. 31 MAR. 2021, M.F. Braby & E.P. Beaver; reared from larva on Lysiana exocarpi ssp. tenuis, coll. 15 FEB. 2021, pupated 14 MAR. 2021; NUOE297449 ANIC DNA sample), 8 km ENE of Leyburn, QLD; 410 m.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 28♂, 28♀, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F. & Mikheyev, A. 2023. Systematics of the Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902) complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): threatened Australian butterflies of national conservation significance. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 457–497

Introduction

Beaver et al. (2023b) revised the systematics of the Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902) complex through an integrative taxonomic approach based on molecular phylogenetic analysis, morphological examination, life histories and ecology. Mitochondrial sequence data based on concatenated cytochrome oxidase I (COI) and cytochrome b (cytb) (total of 1203 bp) for 36 ingroup samples were generated and combined with sequences available on NCBI GenBank for Ogyris. Phylogenetic analysis inferred by maximum likelihood methods resolved five taxa within this group, with the taxon Ogyris caelestia Beaver & Braby, 2023 described as a new species. This species had previously been confused with O. aenone. The late Jack Macqueen first discovered the species in 1939 near Millmerran but his observations were not published until 25 years later (Macqueen 1965). Prior to the discovery of a second population by J. Macqueen and J.F.R. Kerr at Leyburn in the late 1960s, Macqueen (1965, p. 57) noted the extreme rarity of this species, lamenting that, ‘In spite of much searching and bandaging of suitable trees, only 25 specimens (mainly bred) have been obtained in 25 years of collecting.’ Common and Waterhouse (1972) first drew attention to the remarkable ecological differences between the northern and ‘southern’ populations of O. aenone, and Eastwood and Fraser (1999) noted that O. aenone was an exception to the general trend that obligate ant–butterfly interactions are species-specific.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Box Mistletoe; Amyema linophylla (Fenzl) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Slender Mistletoe; Lysiana exocarpi (Behr) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Harlequin Mistletoe).

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F. & Mikheyev, A. 2023. Systematics of the Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902) complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): threatened Australian butterflies of national conservation significance. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 457–497

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1972. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii 498 pp. 41 pls.

Eastwood, R. & Fraser, A.M. 1999. Associations between lycaenid butterflies and ants in Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 24: 503-537

Macqueen, J. 1965. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 4: 56-57

History of changes

• Ogyris iphis doddi 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] [118].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL19565 ♂, Darwin, NT (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL19566 1♀, Port Darwin, NT
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mention two males and two females but not a type.

  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. [26] (gave the label data of the lectotype as Port Darwin, NT).

Introduction

This species was first discovered in Darwin by F.P. Dodd and his son Walter during 1908–09 (Braby 2015; Braby et al. 2018). During the 9-month stay, the Dodds collected at least 14 specimens (5♂, 9♀), most of which were reared from the immature stages, from a site near the former railway workshop and locomotive depot that has been transformed into the suburb of Parap. The population was subsequently described as a subspecies of O. iphis based on four specimens by Waterhouse and Lyell (1914). Waterhouse and Lyell (1914) indicated that O. doddi differed from O. iphis principally by the narrower black margins that are particularly reduced in the forewing apex of males. Common and Waterhouse (1972, 1981) and Braby (2000) noted an additional character, namely that the orange patch below the discal cell on the underside of the forewing in females is more extensive. Careful examination of all available material in museum collections (total of 18 specimens) by Beaver et al. (2023) revealed additional morphological characters concerning the adult phenotype, male genitalia and immature stages by which O. doddi differs from O. iphis. Based on these multiple lines of evidence, together with molecular evidence, Beaver et al. (2023) treated O. doddi as a distinct species.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to the NT, known only from Melville Island and Darwin.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F. & Mikheyev, A. 2023. Systematics of the Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902) complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): threatened Australian butterflies of national conservation significance. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 457–497

Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Braby, M.F., Franklin, D.C., Bisa, D.E., Williams, M.R., Williams, A.A.E., Bishop, C.L. & Coppen, R.A.M. 2018. Atlas of Butterflies and Diurnal Moths in the Monsoon Tropics of Northern Australia. Canberra : ANU Press pp. xxxii+430.

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [488]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [371]

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] [183]

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]

History of changes

• Ogyris genoveva Hewitson, W.C. 1853. Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. London : John van Voorst Vol. 1(5-7). [issued 1853, dated 1851–1856] [96 pl. 48] [the species represented by the names O. genoveva (Hewitson) and O. zosine (Hewitson) were confused in all literature prior to 1941].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Brisbane, QLD (Australia given in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description stated that the female illustrated was the only one he had seen, it was in his own collection and his figures of the holotype leave no doubt of its identity; 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. [145] (listed two specimens in the Hewitson collection but one of these was acquired after the original description; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269–292 [278] did not mention a type but mentioned a type form from Townsville under the name zosine); 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 [119] referred to a type female described as blue but figured as green by Hewitson in the original publication and originating from Brisbane; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386–390 [386] (referred to selecting a female type in 1905 which he had not done, and the specimen he mentioned in 1916 was a purple female which could not have been Hewitson's original, single, specimen; under magna he again mentioned a type of genoveva); Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342–354 pls 28–30 [344] (discussed the history of the name mentioning types and agreed that the type came from Brisbane); Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 66(3–4): 233–238 [236] (recognised that genoveva and zosine had been confused and discussed the holotype of genoveva and confirmed the type locality as Brisbane, QLD).

  Type locality references:

  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.; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [269] (referred to the type form from Townsville but under the name of zosine to which he may have been only referring rather than to genoveva or to both); Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292; 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] [119] (gave Brisbane as the type locality); 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]; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386-390; Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [344] (discussed the type locality of both zosine and genoveva but often failed to distinguish which he was discussing); Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30; Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [236] (discussed previous work and provided clear evidence for a type locality of Brisbane; the type of genoveva was obtained from Frederick Strange who collected in the Brisbane area; Whittell, H.M. 1947. Frederick Strange. Australian Zoologist 11: 96–114 [96] discussed Strange's collecting localities); Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238.
• Ogyris zosine magna Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [281].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Brisbane, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: Bethune-Baker in the original description referred to types but not individually, and he described both sexes; 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 [119] (did not mention a type); Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386–390 [387] (referred to types); Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342–354 pls 28–30 [344] (did not mention a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 66(3–4): 233–238 [237] (did not specifically mention a type, although he did mention a holotype ambiguously but was probably talking about genoveva).

  Type locality references:

  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]; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386-390; Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30; Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238.
• Ogyris zozine araxes Burns, A.N. 1931. Habits and life histories of some Victorian lycaenid butterflies. Victorian Naturalist 48: 129-136 [129] [junior primary homonym of Ogyris zosine araxes Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, Horsham, Dimboola and Hattah, VIC (in original description)
  Comment: Burns described both sexes, he described the subspecies inadvertently and marked no type material.
• Ogyris zosine araxes 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] [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL19789 ♂ (Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned a type), Dimboola, VIC (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL19790 1♀, Dimboola, VIC
  Comment: 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. [25] (type information).

  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.
• Ogyris zosine splendida Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [347 pl. xxix fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I13170 ♀ (Tindale in the original description mentioned a type), Mt Painter, Flinders Range, SA (designated in original description)
  Comment: Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 66(3–4): 233–238 [238] (stated that Tindale had a single female).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238.
• Ogyris genoveva gela Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [237].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL19759 ♂, St. Mary's, NSW (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL19759 4♂ 3♀, St Mary's, NSW
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description mentioned several localities but not a type; 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. [25] (listed paralectotypes in AM not marked as such).

  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.
• Ogyris genoveva genua Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [237].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL19824 ♂, Woodside, SA (Waterhouse gave Mt Lofty Ranges near Adelaide, SA, in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL19824 3♂ 7♀, Woodside, SA
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description mentioned both sexes; 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. [25] (listed paralectotypes in AM but unlabelled as such).

  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. [25] (restricted the type locality to Woodside, SA); 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.
• Ogyris zosine duaringa Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [280].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Coomooboolaroo, QLD (designated in original description; Coomooboolaroo was the name of George Barnard's property near Duaringa, QLD); AM KL19738 2♂ 2♀
  Comment: Bethune-Baker in the original description stated that there was a long series in the Tring Museum but did not mention a type; Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342–354 pls 28–30 [344] (did not mention a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 66(3–4): 233–238 [237] (did not mention a type, but stated that two pairs had been given to Waterhouse by Rothschild); 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. [25] (listed four syntypes in the AM).

  Type locality references:

  Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30; Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238; 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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [234]
• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs extensively throughout, NSW, ACT, VIC, to Mt Painter in the northern Flinders Ranges, SA, there is also a record from W of Zanthus in WA, in QLD it occurs predominantly in the SE with an isolated population at Eungella and others from Yeppoon, Duaringa and Marlborough.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Grey Mistletoe; Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE] Needle-leaf Mistletoe; Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE] Orange Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe; Muellerina eucalyptoides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema congener Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema conspicua (F.M.Bailey) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema miraculosa (Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [471]

Eastwood, R. 1997. Field observations on the symbiotic interactions of Ogyris genoveva (Hewitson) and Ogyris zosine (Hewitson) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with Camponotus spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Entomologist 24(3): 137-143 [137]

Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [189]

McCubbin, C. 1971. Australian Butterflies. Melbourne : Nelson xxxi 206 pp. [77]

Miskin, W.H. 1883. On Ogyris genoveva Hewitson, and its life-history. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1883: 343-345 pl. XV [343] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [234]

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F., Douglas, F. & Willan, R.C. 2011. The nomenclature of Ogyris halmaturia (Tepper, 1890) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist

Generic Combinations

• Ogyris halmaturia (Tepper, 1890).

History of changes

• Ogyris halmaturia Tepper, 1890.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Grund, R. 2010. The taxonomy of Ogyris halmaturia (Tepper, 1890) stat. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 49: 114–120
• Braby, M.F., Douglas, F. & Willan, R.C. 2011. The nomenclature of Ogyris halmaturia (Tepper, 1890) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist

Generic Combinations

• Ogyris halmaturia (Tepper, 1890).

Introduction

Braby et al. (2011) clarifed and resolved the nomenclature of this species, which has had a long and complex nomenclatural history. This complexity has arisen because: (1) the species group name halmaturia was based on a mixed series comprising two different species; (2) historically at least six authors have attempted to resolve the nomenclature of halmaturia, but most failed to render a valid and unambiguous lectotype designation; (3) one of these authors (N.B. Tindale) made a particularly confusing lectotype designation in 1923; and (4) introduction of the name Ogyris waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905). They argued that Tindale made the first valid and unambiguous lectotypification in 1923. Consequently, Braby et al. (2011) proposed that O. halmaturia is the senior synonym of O. waterhouseri and that Tepper’s syntype ‘female’ is the lectotype male of O. halmaturia. Subsequently, Beaver et al. (2023) treated waterhouseri as a subspecies of O. halmaturia based on consistent morphological differences between populations on the Australian mainland and Kangaroo Island, SA.

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

Braby, M.F., Douglas, F. & Willan, R.C. 2011. The nomenclature of Ogyris halmaturia (Tepper, 1890) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist

History of changes

• Ogyris waterhouseri Bethune-Baker, 1905.

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM AM KL20205 ♂, Grampians, Victoria
  Comment: Bethune-Baker in the original description mentioned both sexes but not a type and did not indicate where his type material was deposited; 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. [26] (listed a holotype in the AM; no published source has been found to indicate that part of Bethune-Baker's series was borrowed from or given to Waterhouse but this may have been the case). Edwards et al. (2001), Braby and Douglas (2008) and Beaver et al. (2023) reviewed the type material, type locality and nomenclature of Ogyris waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905). Bethune- Baker (1905) described the species from Victoria based on material dispatched by G.A. Waterhouse (see Waterhouse and Lyell 1908) but did not indicate the number of specimens available. Braby and Douglas (2008) concluded that Bethune-Baker had at most three syntypes (1♂, 2♀) and that the type locality was most likely the Grampians based on the plate index for the lectotype male illustrated by Waterhouse and Lyell (1914, pl. 18, fig. 400) and referred to by Peters (1971) as the holotype. However, re-examination of O. waterhouseri material in AM and G. A. Waterhouse’s original register indicated that only two specimens (1♂, 1♀) were sent to England and subsequently returned to Australia( Beaver et al. 2023). These type specimens have the label ‘Ogyris waterhouseri B-B’ in Bethune-Baker’s original handwriting. Edwards et al. (2001) considered Peters' (1971) incorrect reference to a ‘holotype’ as a lectotype designation. Beaver et al. (2013) agreed with the conclusion of Edwards et al. (2001) and considered the second (female) specimen, referred to above, in AM and illustrated by Waterhouse and Lyell (1914, pl. 18, fig. 402), a paralectotype.

  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.; Braby, M.F. & Douglas, F. 2008. The nomenclature, taxonomy and conservation status of Ogyris waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905) stat. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), a threatened butterfly from southern Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 47(4): 315-329; Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023].

Generic Combinations

• Ogyris halmaturia waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905).

Introduction

Beaver et al. (2023) treated Ogyris waterhouseri as a subspecies of O. halmaturia based on consistent morphological differences between populations on the Australian mainland and Kangaroo Island, SA.

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

History of changes

• Ogyris ianthis Waterhouse, G.A. 1900. Descriptions of new species of Australian Rhopalocera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25(1): 52-57 pl. 1 figs 1-8 [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)] [52 pl. i figs 1-4].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL19597 ♂, Como, near Sydney, NSW (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL19598 1♀, Como, NSW
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description referred to types and mentioned six male and one female syntypes; Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part 1. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 27(3): 331–342 [341] (referred to a female type but in the context it is clear he was referring to the female syntype); 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. [26] (type information).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(3): 331-342; 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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs at Carnarvon Range, Chinchilla and Dalby to Glen Aplin near Stanthorpe, QLD, and from Yetman, Gunnedah and Newcastle to Heathcote, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Grey Mistletoe; Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE] Orange Mistletoe; Amyema linophylla (Fenzl) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Slender Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe; Muellerina eucalyptoides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [486]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [370]

Macqueen, J. 1965. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 4: 56-57 [56] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [247]

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] [182]

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] [118]

History of changes

• Ogyris idmo Hewitson, W.C. 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London : British Museum iii 15 pp., 8 pls. [2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀, Swan River, WA (designated in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description mentioned two females, but not a type; they were from the BMNH collection and not Hewitson's collection; Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 57(2): 251–259 [252] (referred to syntypes).

  Type locality references:

  Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 251-259.
• Ogyris orontas Hewitson, W.C. 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London : British Museum iii 15 pp., 8 pls. [2] [Hewitson described O. orontas (Hewitson, 1862) and O. idmo (Hewitson, 1862) simultaneously; O. idmo (Hewitson) was given priority by Hewitson (1863) as first reviser].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia (in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described nor mention a type; described from the Saunders collection; Hewitson incorrectly called the material female.

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• 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] [179]
• Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 251-259 [252]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs widely in SW Australia from near Mt Ragged in Cape Arid National Park to 13 km north of Scandan, from the Stirling Range to Denmark and from Perth to Port Denison

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: attendant ants, mymecophagous (host(s): Camponotus terebrans (Lowne, 1865) [FORMICIDAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Ants are believed to be both larval food and attendants.

General References

Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1894. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 2. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. pp. 79-129. [104]

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [274]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [478]

Field, R.P. 1997. The Ogyris idmo complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) as flagship species for conservation in southern Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 56: 389-392 [389] (conservation)

Lower, O.B. 1893. List of South Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17(1): 1-12 [9]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [248]

History of changes

• Ogyris iphis iphis 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] [117].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL19533 ♂, Kuranda, QLD (designated in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL19535 1♀, Kuranda, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description listed seven males and six females but not a type.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F. & Mikheyev, A. 2023. Systematics of the Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902) complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): threatened Australian butterflies of national conservation significance. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 457–497

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs in NE Qld, from 3 km north of the Palmer River crossing, 12 km west of Dimbulah, the hilltops between Kuranda and Mareeba, the hilltops to the west of Paluma and on the Burra Range SW of Charters Towers.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Grey Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Box Mistletoe; Amyema vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE] Orange Mistletoe; Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F. & Mikheyev, A. 2023. Systematics of the Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902) complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): threatened Australian butterflies of national conservation significance. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 457–497

Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [487]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [371]

Lane, D.A. 1979. Life history notes and distribution records for some Queensland butterflies. Australian Entomological Magazine 5(6): 115-117 [115] (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] [183]

History of changes

• Ogyris olane Hewitson, W.C. 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London : British Museum iii 15 pp., 8 pls. [2 pl. 1 fig. 10, 11].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia (in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not mention the number of specimens described, although he did say that the material was in his own collection; 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. [144] (listed a single specimen in the Hewitson collection, and this is accepted as evidence for a holotype); Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269–292 [283] (referred to a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 59(5–6): 416–420 [418] (referred to a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101–133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [120] (referred to a holotype).

  Type locality references:

  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.; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292; Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [418] (discussed the general area of origin of the holotype); Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [120] (discussed the type locality); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938].
• Ogyris olane ocela Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [419].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL20089 ♀ (Waterhouse designated a holotype), Woodford, NSW (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL20073 1♀, Woodford, NSW; AM KL20071 2♂ 1♀, Woodford, NSW; AM KL20072 1♂, Woodford, NSW; AM KL20090 1♀, Woodford, NSW
  Comment: 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. [419] (type information).

  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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs widely in QLD from Cairns to Townsville, further south it extends from Clermont, QLD, through NSW, ACT and VIC, to the Flinders Ranges and Iron Knob in SA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe).

General References

Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1894. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 2. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. pp. 79-129. [105]

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [283]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [482]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [368]

Edwards, E.O. 1956. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae; Genus Ogyris (Azure Blue Butterflies). Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1954–55: 65-66 [65]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [248]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1934. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. VII. Description of new races. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59(5–6): 416-420 [418]

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] [119]

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Quick, W.N.B. 1972. A new Race of the Butterfly, Ogyris oroetes. Victorian Naturalist 89: 107-111 [107]
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [490]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe; Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [285]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [489]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1902. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(3): 331-342 [335]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [246]

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] [180]

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] [116]

History of changes

• Ogyris oroetes apiculata Quick, W.N.B. 1972. A new Race of the Butterfly, Ogyris oroetes. Victorian Naturalist 89: 107-111 [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (Quick designated a holotype, which was originally in the Quick collection, now in ANIC), Kellerberrin, WA (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) ANIC 4♂, Kellerberrin, WA; ANIC 1♀, Coolgardie, WA; ANIC 1♂, Coolgardie, WA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Wentworth and Broken Hill, NSW, to Wakerie SA, Eucla and from E of Balladonia west to Geraldton WA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

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. [490]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [372]

Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [201]

History of changes

• Ogyris oroetes Hewitson, W.C. 1862. Specimen of a Catalogue of Lycaenidae in the British Museum. London : British Museum iii 15 pp., 8 pls. [3 pl. I figs 12, 13].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, although he mentioned Angas' figure but only questionably associated it; described from the BMNH collection.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

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. [490]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [372]

History of changes

• Ogyris otanes Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. 2. Abtheilung 2, Heft 2. Vienna : Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 137-378 pls 22-47. [for publication date: Higgins (1963: 159), see Fletcher (1979)] [217 pl. 28 figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Adelaide, SA (in original description)
  Comment: C. & R. Felder in the original description mentioned and figured both sexes; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269–292 [276] (referred to Felder's types and to Felder's type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 92 pp. [14] (listed two males and a female from the Felder collection then at Tring). Felder and Felder (1865) originally described and illustrated both sexes of Ogyris otanes C. & R. Felder, 1865 based on three syntypes (2♂, 1♀, now in NHMUK) but no types were referenced (Edwards et al. 2001). Bethune-Baker (1905) examined and referred to the syntypes of Felder and Felder (1865) but did not refer to an individual specimen. Tindale (1923) referred to types, stating that, ‘The type of O. otanes came from Adelaide…’ (p. 347). Edwards et al. (2001) interpreted Tindale’s (1923) reference to a type as qualifying as a lectotype designation but this is questionable because Tindale (1923) did not indicate which of the three syntypes were being referred to. Subsequently, Williams and Hay (2001, p. 62) made an intentional, unambiguous and explicit lectotype designation by providing the label data of one of the syntype males in NHMUK. Beaver et al. (2023) considered the action of Williams and Hay (2001) to constitute a valid lectotypification under Article 74 of the ‘International Code of Zoological Nomenclature’ (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999), thereby fixing the name otanes to this species. Beaver et al. (2023) illustrated the three types: lectotype male, paralectotype male and paralectotype female.

  Type locality references:

  Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292; Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354, pls 28-30; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 92 pp.; Tregenza, J. 1980. George French Angas. Artist traveller and naturalist 1822–1886. Adelaide : Art Gallery Board of South Australia 88 pp. [26] (identified the time when the material was sent by Angas to C. Felder; he lived in Angaston, SA at this period); Williams, M.R. & Hay, R.W. 2001. Two new subspecies of Ogyris otanes C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 28: 55-63; Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023].

Generic Combinations

• Ogyris otanes (C. & R. Felder, 1865) [Originally placed in Ogyris Westwood, 1851]. —
  Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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. [250]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Lower Gulf country, QLD, and south-east SA to north-west VIC, previously recorded in western NSW but now considered locally extinct

IBRA

Qld, SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

History of changes

• Ogyris subterrestris petrina Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 251-259.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

Introduction

The taxonomy of this species was investigated by Field (1987, 1990, 1992, 1997), who considered it to be an undescribed taxon closely related to Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862). Field (1999) eventually described and treated this as a subspecies of Ogyris subterrestris Field, 1999 although no justification was provided for this taxonomic arrangement. Field (1999) gave a diagnosis for the species O. subterrestris but not for O. petrina. Subsequently, Beaver et al. (2023) treated O. petrina as a species distinct from O. subterrestris based on substantial morphological differences in adult phenotype and male genitalia, together with the molecular phylogenetic evidence presented by Schmidt et al. (2014) and the large pairwise distance according to mtDNA.

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 251-259

Schmidt, D.J., Grund ,R., Williams, M.R. & Hughes, J.M. 2014. Australian parasitic Ogyris butterflies: east-west divergence of highly-specialized relicts. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 111: 473-484

History of changes

• Ogyris subterrestris subterrestris Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 251-259.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Grey Mistletoe; Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE] Needle-leaf Mistletoe; Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE] Orange Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe; Muellerina celastroides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema conspicua (F.M.Bailey) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema maidenii (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Decaisnina signata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe curvata Blume [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

General References

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [278]

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386-390 [386]

Braby, M.F. 1997. New larval food plants for some butterflies (Lepidoptera) from northern and central Queensland, Australia. Australian Entomologist 24: 97-108 [101] (biology)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [476]

Eastwood, R. 1997. Field observations on the symbiotic interactions of Ogyris genoveva (Hewitson) and Ogyris zosine (Hewitson) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with Camponotus spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Entomologist 24(3): 137-143 [137] (biology)

Miskin, W.H. 1890. A revision of the Australian Genus Ogyris with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 23-28 [23]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [396]

Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [344]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [245]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [235]

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] [119]

History of changes

• Ogyris zosine Hewitson, W.C. 1853. Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. London : John van Voorst Vol. 1(5-7). [issued 1853, dated 1851–1856] [95 pl. 48] [the species represented by the names O. zosine (Hewitson) and O. genoveva (Hewitson) were confused in all literature prior to 1941].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Brisbane, QLD (Australia given in original description)
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, but he indicated that specimens were in the Hewitson and in the Saunders collections; 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. [144] (listed a single specimen in the Hewitson collection); Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269–292 [278] (did not mention a type; since 1914 references to a type have been to the single male illustrated by Hewitson and in his collection; the specimen in the Saunders collection has not been considered and its current whereabouts is unknown).

  Type locality references:

  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.; Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [278] (referred to the type form from Townsville, QLD); Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292; 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] [119] (gave evidence that the type locality was Brisbane, QLD); Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386-390 [388] (disagreed with Waterhouse & Lyell's evidence that the type locality was Brisbane but gave no alternative); Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [345] (misread Bethune-Baker's statements about Hewitson's labelling but agreed with Waterhouse & Lyell that the type locality should be Brisbane; this was clearly stated on p. 346); Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [234] (provided convincing evidence that the type locality was Brisbane; the 'holotype' was collected by Frederick Strange who collected in the Brisbane area; Whittell, H.M. 1947. Frederick Strange. Australian Zoologist 11: 96–114 [96] gave Strange's collecting localities).
• Ogyris zozine typhon 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] [120].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL19666 ♂, Townsville, QLD (in original description Cooktown, Kuranda, Cairns, Ingham, Townsville and Mackay, QLD, listed as well as Fortescue River, WA, and Darwin, NT).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL19667 1♀, Townsville, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned 20 males and 14 females.

  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. [25] (restricted the type locality to Townsville, QLD).
• Ogyris zosine zolivia Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [236].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL25549 ♂, Whitsunday Is. and Hayman Is., QLD (in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL 25551 4♂1♀, Hayman or Whitsunday Is.; AM KL25549 3♂ 2♀, Hayman Is. or Whitsunday Is., QLD; AM KL25551 1♂, Hayman Is. or Whitsunday Is., QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described nor did he mention a type.

  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. [25] (did not give the locality of origin of the lectotype).
• Ogyris zosine zenobia Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386-390 [389] [originally described as the fourth term in a quadrinomial; Bethune-Baker (1916) used zenobia as a subspecies name].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL25558 ♀, Ballina, NSW (Richmond River, NSW, given by Waterhouse & Lyell)
  Comment: Bethune-Baker elevated a Waterhouse & Lyell name to species group level, thus the types will be the specimens Waterhouse & Lyell based their infrasubspecific name on; Waterhouse & Lyell listed three females.

  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. [25] (gave the label data of the lectotype which was Ballina, NSW).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [236]
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 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. [250]
• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

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. [476]

Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [346]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [236]

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] [120]

Wyatt, C. 1955. Going Wild. The autobiography of a bug-hunter. London : Hollis & Carter pp. xii 1-214. [171]

History of changes