Species Orsotriaena medus (Fabricius, 1775)

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Species Orsotriaena medus (Fabricius, 1775)

Smooth-eyed Bush-brown

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [324]
Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 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. [244]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea, Oriental Region.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded from the Australian mainland, but on Dauan Is. in northern Torres Strait, eggs were obtained by enclosing females on Imperata sp. (Poaceae), and in captivity larvae were reared successfully on Panicum maximum, an introduced grass.

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Orsotriaena medus medus (Fabricius, 1775)

Papilio medus Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae : Libraria Kortii 8 vols xxx 832 pp. [488].
Type data: type status unknown BMNH ♂*; Fabricius in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, nor did he give the collection from which he described the species; Jones, W. 1783. Icones. [unpublished original watercolour paintings with added notes]. Located at Oxford University, Hope Department of Entomology 6 Vols. [approx. 1783–1818] [vol. 6, pl. 52. fig. 3] (figured a specimen from Banks' collection); Riley, N.D. & Gabriel, A.G. 1924. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum. Part I. Satyrinae. London : British Museum 62 pp. [35] (did not list a type in the BMNH); Corbet, A.S. 1941. Observations on certain of the Fabrician names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera (Lepid.). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 10(6): 98–106 [104] (discussed Banks' specimen concluding that it may be the type); Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [514] (listed the species but did not locate a type specimen).
Type locality: Java, Indonesia (as 'Capite Bonae Spei' in original description), see Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [104] (gave Java as the type locality).

General References

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [554]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
05-Mar-2013	05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012	30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
	05-Apr-2011	MOVED

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