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Species Graphium eurypylus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Species Graphium eurypylus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), 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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal
  • Indonesia
    • Irian Jaya
    • Maluku
  • Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Polyalthia nitidissima (Dunal) Benth. [ANNONACEAE] Canary Beech; Polyalthia australis (Benth.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE] China Pine; Annona reticulata L. [ANNONACEAE] Custard Apple; Miliusa brahei (F.Muell.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE] Raspberry Jelly Tree; Annona muricata L. [ANNONACEAE] Soursop; Annona squamosa L. [ANNONACEAE] Sugar Apple; Melodorum leichhardtii (F.Muell.) Benth. [ANNONACEAE] Wild Bananas; Artabotrys sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Desmos goezeanus (F.Muell.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE]; Desmos sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Fitzalania heteropetala (F.Muell.) F.Muell. [ANNONACEAE]; Melodorum spp.; Miliusa traceyi Jessup [ANNONACEAE]; Polyalthia sp. [ANNONACEAE]; Pseuduvaria froggattii (F.Muell.) Jessup [ANNONACEAE]; Uvaria concava Teysm. & Binn. [ANNONACEAE]; Uvaria rufa Reinw. ex Blume [ANNONACEAE]; Annona glabra L. [ANNONACEAE]; Magnolia sp. [MAGNOLIACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced plants include Annona glabra, A. muricata, A. reticulata, A. squamosa (Annonaceae), Magnolia sp. (Magnoliaceae).

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Graphium eurypylus eurypylus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Papilio eurypylus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Edition X, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 824 pp. [464].
Type data: lectotype whereabouts unknown sex unknown; Linnaeus in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; originally in Museum of Queen Ludovica Ulrica of Sweden, now part of ZIUU; Corbet, A.S. 1942. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pt 3. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 11: 91–94 [93] (noted type missing from ZIUU and LS); Corbet, A.S. 1949. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pt 7. Summary of determinations. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 18: 191–199 [195] (noted type missing from ZIUU and LS); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [253] (referred to a holotype).
Subsequent designation: Corbet, A.S. 1941. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pts 1, 2. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 10: 8–27 [13] (referred to a holotype); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. [13] (interpret Corbet's (1941) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985); although Corbet could not locate a specimen in ZIUU he gave the figure number of it in Clerck and designating a figure is acceptable even though there is no evidence that the figure was based on a single specimen).
Type locality: Ambon (as Amboina; Linnaeus in original description gave East Indies (as Indiis)), see Corbet, A.S. 1949. The Linnaean names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. Pt 7. Summary of determinations. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B 18: 191–199 [193, 195] (restricted the type locality to Ambon (as Amboina)).

 

General References

Doubleday, E. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1847. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 1 pp. xii 1-18 pls A 1-4. [issued 1847, dated 1846-1850, publication dates] [14] (incorrect subsequent spelling as eurypilus)

Godart, J.B. 1819. Zoologie. Vol. 9 Pt 1 pp. 13–328 in Latreille, P.A. & Godart, J.B. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. On the dates of publication of the natural history portions of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 577–582; Cowan, C.F. 1968. [publication dates] Enc. Méth. 9. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4(7): 307–311, 390 [310]; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1899. On the dates of the Encyclopédie Méthodique: additional note. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899(3): 595] [45] (incorrect subsequent spelling as eurypilus)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023 PAPILIONOIDEA 22-Dec-2023 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 PAPILIONIDAE Latreille, 1802 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
04-Sep-2013 Graphium Scopoli, 1777 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED