Subspecies Papilio (Princeps) fuscus capaneus Westwood, 1843

Museums

Regional Maps

• Papilio capaneus Westwood, J.O. 1843. On the Australian Species of Papilio. Arcana Entomologica: or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects. London : William Smith Vol. 2 pp. 81-82. [issued 1843, dated 1843–1845] [15 pl. 52].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH Rh10961 ♀, Australia (in original description and has not been more closely defined)
  Comment: Westwood in the original description illustrated two specimens, and these were in the Linnean Society and Entomological Society collections both of which went to the BMNH; Waterhouse (1936: 4) located a female marked as a type and gave accession number.

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [4] (quoted label data giving type information).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [248] (biology)

Hancock, D.L. 1992. The Princeps fuscus complex (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 19(1): 1-8 [4]

Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167-463 pl. 6 [296] (bibliography, description, distribution)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [34] (biology)

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] [165] (description, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		05-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)