Subspecies Oreixenica kershawi ella (Olliff, 1888)
- Xenica ella Olliff, A.S. 1888. On a new butterfly of the family Satyridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 2(4): 976-977 [976].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Warra, Liverpool Plains, NSW (in original description)
Comment: Olliff in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; 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 [44] (stated that the type was lost); 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. (did not mention the name).Type locality references:
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. (the type locality is clearly erroneous, Liverpool Range was probably intended, and at that time would have included Barrington Tops which must be the provenance of the specimens).
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE 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. [364] (description, distribution)
Tindale, N.B. 1949. New Satyridae of the genus Oreixenica from South Australia and New South Wales together with notes on the recent climate of southern Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 143-156 pl. 12 [143, 146] (distribution, description and key)
Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Catalogue of the Rhopalocera of Australia. Memoirs of the NSW Naturalists' Club No. 1. iii 49 pp. [17] (as Xenica kershawi ella Olliff, 1888)
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] [118]
History of changes
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| 05-Mar-2013 | 05-Mar-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED |