Subspecies Oreixenica kershawi kershawi (Miskin, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xenica kershawi Miskin, W.H. 1876. Descriptions of new species of Australian diurnal Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 24(3): 451-457 [452].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM T.12371 1♂, VIC ('upon or at the foot of high mountains' given in original description); QM T.12372 1♀
  Comment: Miskin in the original description mentioned both sexes; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [522] (located two specimens in the QM and gave type information).
• Oreixenica kershawi phryne 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 [145].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I.18964 ♂ (Tindale in the original description mentioned a holotype), Lees Spring near Picadilly Circus, ACT (as Lee Spring, Federal Capital Territory, in original description).
  Paratype(s) SAMA I.18964 1♂, Lees Spring, ACT.

 

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

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, 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. [363] (biology)

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. 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]

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] [44] (description, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED