Genus Ornithoptera Boisduval, 1832

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Genus Ornithoptera Boisduval, 1832

Ornithoptera Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [33].
Type species:
Papilio priamus Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. A contribution to systematic nomenclature. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 91-293 [234].
Amphrisius Swainson, W. 1833. Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged according to their natural affinities. 2nd Series. The Birds. London : Baldwin & Cradock; W. Wood; R. Havell Vol. 3 50 pp. pls 92-136. [Date published Mar. 1833: publication dated as 1832–1833, published Mar. 1833] [pl. 98, text to pl. 98].
Type species:
Amphrisius nymphalides Swainson, 1833 by monotypy.
Aetheoptera Rippon, R.H.F. 1890. Icones Ornithopterorum: a monograph of the Papilionine tribe Troides Hübner, or Ornithoptera Boisduval. London : R.H.J. Rippon Vol. 1(1–2) [iii] 86 pp. 45 pls. [issued 1890, dated 1898] [4] [Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Suppl. 9: 1–509 (29) discussed an additional introduction of this name as new by Rippon in Vol. 1 p. 47 on an unascertainable date between 1890 and 1896; Haugum, J. & Low, A.M. 1978. A Monograph of the Birdwing Butterflies. The systematics of Ornithoptera, Troides and related genera. Vol. 1, Part 1. Introduction, Ornithoptera (Aetheoptera). Klampenborg, Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press 9–84 pp. (44) referred to Aetheoptera Rippon, 1894, did not verify the date].
Type species:
Ornithoptera victoriae Gray, 1856 by original designation.
Priamoptera Rippon, R.H.F. 1890. Icones Ornithopterorum: a monograph of the Papilionine tribe Troides Hübner, or Ornithoptera Boisduval. London : R.H.J. Rippon Vol. 1(1–2) [iii] 86 pp. 45 pls. [issued 1890, dated 1898] [4] [incorrect original spelling as Priamusptera in Rippon [1890] (Vol. 1 pls 12, 15, A); corrected by Rippon [1898] as first reviser in Vol. 1 Errata (1), (2); Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Suppl. 9: 1–509 (376) discussed spelling of the genus and the designation of a type species].
Type species:
Ornithoptera croesus Wallace, 1859 by original designation.
Pompeoptera Rippon, R.H.F. 1890. Icones Ornithopterorum: a monograph of the Papilionine tribe Troides Hübner, or Ornithoptera Boisduval. London : R.H.J. Rippon Vol. 1(1–2) [iii] 86 pp. 45 pls. [issued 1890, dated 1898] [4] [incorrect original spelling as Pompeusptera in Rippon [1890] (Vol. 1 pl. A); corrected by Rippon [1898] as first reviser in Vol 1 Errata (1), (2); Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology Suppl. 9: 1–509 (371) discussed spelling of the genus and the status and synonymy of the type species].
Type species:
Papilio pompeus Cramer, 1775 by original designation (see (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1958) [6] for publication date of Cramer).
Schoenbergia Pagenstecher, A.F. 1893. Beiträge zur Lepidopteren — Fauna des Malayischen Archipels, VII. Jahrbuch des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau. Wiesbaden 46(1893): 27-40 [35] [first made available as a subgenus of Ornithoptera Boisduval, 1832].
Type species:
Schoenbergia schoenbergi Pagenstecher, 1893 by monotypy (Hemming (1967: 405) discussed status and synonymy of the type species).
Phalaenosoma Rippon, R.H.F. 1906. Icones Ornithopterorum: a monograph of the Papilionine tribe Troides Hübner, or Ornithoptera Boisduval. London : R.H.J. Rippon Vol. 2 104 pp. 83 figs 59 pls. [121].
Type species:
Troides chimaera Rothschild, 1904 by monotypy.
Ripponia Haugum, J. & Low, A.M. 1975. Notes on the status of Troides hypolitus (Cramer) 1775 (Lep.: Papilionidae: Troidini) with a description of a new genus, notes on the status of T. hypolitus cellularis Rothschild 1895, and the apparent dimorphism in the male sex of T. hypolitus sulaenis Staudinger 1895. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 86(4): 111-119 [111].
Type species:
Papilio hypolitus Cramer, 1775 by original designation (see (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1958) [6] for publication date of Cramer).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Miller, J.S. 1987. Phylogenetic studies in the Papilioninae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 186: 368-512

Introduction

"The genus Ornithoptera Boisduval, 1832, which includes several taxa from Australia, was subsumed under Troides Hübner, [1819], by Miller (1987), but is now generally regarded as a distinct monophyletic genus sister to Troides (Hancock 1991; Hancock & Orr 1997; Morinaka et al. 1999; Morinaka et al. 2000; Kondo, Shinkawa & Matsuka 2003; Braby, Trueman & Eastwood 2005). Hence, the species group names priamus, euphorion and richmondia listed under Troides in the Checklist (Edwards 1996c) are now placed under Ornithoptera." (Braby 2010)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

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IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)