Subspecies Orsotriaena medus licium (Fruhstorfer, 1908)

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• Orsotriaena medus licium Fruhstorfer, 1908.
• Orsotriaena medus moira 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] [30 figs 477, 478].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL03014 ♂, Cape York, QLD (Waterhouse & Lyell gave Cape York, Banks Is. and Darnley Is., QLD, in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL03015 ♀, Cape York, QLD; whereabouts unknown 21♂
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original publication mentioned 22 males and 10 females; 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. [20] (type information).

  Type locality references:

  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. [20] (restricted the type locality to Cape York, QLD).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lambkin, T.A. 2008. Orsotriaena medus licium (Fruhstorfer) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) in Queensland, Australia. Australian Entomologist 35: 121–128 (Lambkin (2008) compared the wing pattern elements of populations of the satyrine Orsotriaena medus (Fabricius, 1775) from the Torres Strait islands and Papua New Guinea and concluded that the Australian subspecies O. medus moira Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914, be synonymised with O. medus licium (Fruhstorfer, 1908) due to the extent of variation. Material from Buru in eastern Indonesia, the type locality of O. medus licium (Parsons 1998), was not compared and ought to have been done, although it is generally accepted that the geographical range of O. medus licium extends from Sulawesi through eastern Indonesia and mainland New Guinea to New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville (Lambkin 2008) (see Braby 2010))

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Braby, M.F. 1995. The distribution, status and habitat associations of the satyrine (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) fauna of northeastern Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 51-61 [54]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [324] (biology)

Johnson, S.J., Johnson, I.R. & Valentine, P.S. 1995. Notes on the early stages of Orsotriaena medus moira Waterhouse & Lyell and Melanitis constantia Cramer (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from Torres Strait, Australia. Australian Entomologist 22: 65-68 [65] (biology)

 

History of changes

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