Subspecies Ogyris amaryllis meridionalis (Bethune-Baker, 1905)

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• 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 and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	09-Jan-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		25-Aug-2010	MODIFIED