Species Ogyris abrota (Westwood, 1851)
Dark Purple Azure
- 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
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)
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]
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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07-Mar-2024 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
04-Feb-2023 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby (ANU) |
13-May-2022 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
26-Feb-2021 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
04-Jun-2020 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
04-Jun-2020 | LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815 | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | |
06-Sep-2017 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | |
06-Sep-2017 | LYCAENIDAE | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
05-Mar-2013 | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
30-Mar-2012 | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
28-Mar-2012 | 20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
20-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED |