Subspecies Suniana sunias rectivitta (Mabille, 1878)
Orange Dart
- Pamphila rectivitta Mabille, P. 1878. Descriptions de Lépidoptères nouveaux de la famille des Hespérides. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques 2(198): 237-238 [237].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia. Sulawesi, Indonesia and Australia (as insula Celebes—Australia?, designated in original description)
Comment: Mabille in the original description implied he had at least two specimens.Type locality references:
Mabille, P. 1904. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam. Hesperidae. Genera Insectorum 17: 1-210, pls 1-4 (1903-1904) [141] (Mabille referred to it as Padraona rectivitta and gave Celebes as the type locality); Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 24(3–5): 58-104 [96] (referred to it as Taractrocera rectivitta and noted that the species was described as coming from Celebes but that Mabille's specimens are labelled Australia); Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [150] (referred to it as Ocybadistes rectivitta and indicated that the type locality was Celebes and suggested that the types were probably in the Staudinger collection, BSM); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [122] (considered a Mabille specimen in BMNH labelled 'P. rectivitta P. Mb. Nov. Holl.' to be the probable holotype); Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [370] (gave Australia as the type locality for rectivitta, indicated a male type specimen was in BMNH, and incorrectly gave the date as 1877; Evans' application of the name implied that the Celebes locality was incorrect). - Padraona tanus nola Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. New genera of Australian Hesperiidae and a new subspecies. The Australian Zoologist 7(3): 198-201 [201].
Type data:
Lectotype AM KL07798 ♂, Port Macquarie, NSW (designated in original description).
Paralectotype(s) AM KL07798 6♂ 1♀, Port Macquarie, NSW
Comment: Waterhouse in the original description mentioned six males and one female; 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. [16] (stated that the number of specimens Waterhouse gave in the original description was incorrect).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Reported form Hammond Island, Torres Strait by Lane & Moulds (2015: 33)
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [150] (as Ocybadistes rectivitta (Mabille, 1878), description)
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [122] (Padroana tanus nola in new combination as Suniana sunias nola (Waterhouse, 1932))
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] [205] (summarised information on rectivitta Mabille, 1878 and discussed its relationship with Padraona sunias (Felder, 1860))
Waterhouse, G.A. & Turner, R.E. 1904. Notes on Hesperidae described by Mabille and reputed to be Australian. Victorian Naturalist 21(8): 109-110 [110]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Mar-2013 | 22-Jul-2015 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |