Subspecies Papilio (Princeps) ulysses joesa Butler, 1869

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• 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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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 [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)].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 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), 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

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28-Mar-2012		05-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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