Species Ogyris otanes (C. & R. Felder, 1865)
Small Bronze Azure
- 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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)].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
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07-Mar-2024 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 29-Jan-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 05-Mar-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 06-Apr-2011 | ADDED |