Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167-463 pl. 6 [397]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Melicope vitiflora (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley [RUTACEAE] Fishpoison Wood; Melicope elleryana (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley [RUTACEAE] Pink-flowered Doughwood; Halfordia kendack (Montrouz.) Guillaumin [RUTACEAE] Saffron Heart; Melicope bonwickii (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley [RUTACEAE] Yellow Evodia; Citrus spp. [RUTACEAE]; Flindersia bourjotiana F.Muell. [RUTACEAE]; Geijera salicifolia Schott [RUTACEAE]; Melicope rubra (Lauterb. & K.Schum.) T.G.Hartley [RUTACEAE]; Melicope spp. [RUTACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced Citrus spp. (Rutaceae).

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Papilio (Princeps) ulysses ulysses Linnaeus, 1758

Papilio ulysses 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. [462].
Type data: lectotype ZIUU ♂*; Linnaeus did not indicate the number of specimens described; originally in Museum of Queen Ludovica Ulrica of Sweden; 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 [198] (type information).
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 [15] (referred to a type); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [266] (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. (interpret Corbet's (1941) reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
Type locality: Ambon (as Amboina), Maluku, Indonesia (as Asia in original description), 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, 198] (restricted the type locality to Ambon).

History of changes

• Papilio joesa Butler, A.G. 1869. Descriptions of two new butterflies from Queensland. The Entomologist 4: 347-348 [348] [correction of incorrect original spelling joësa (Art. 32(d), ICZN 1985)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Rh11056 ♂, QLD (in original description)
  Comment: Butler in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; 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. (Butler's use of the word male in the context of the paper implied that he had only one); Butler, A.G 1870. Lepidoptera Exotica, or Descriptions and Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 1(3) 17–24 pls 7–9 pp. [pl. 8] (illustrated this specimen); 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] (gave BMNH accession number).

  Type locality references:

  Butler, A.G 1870. Lepidoptera Exotica, or Descriptions and Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 1(3) 17-24 pp., pls 7-9. [Date published January 1870]; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp.; 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.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

General References

Barrett, C. & Burns, A.N. 1951. Butterflies of Australia and New Guinea. Melbourne : N.H. Seward x 187 pp. [15]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [254] (biology)

Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167-463 pl. 6 [394] (discussed the ulysses group)

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] [37]

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] [164] (description, distribution)

History of changes