Species Ogyris aenone (Waterhouse, 1902)

• 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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Mar-2013		06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED
		06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED