Subspecies Paralucia pyrodiscus pyrodiscus (Doubleday, 1847)

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• Lucia pyrodiscus Doubleday, E. 1847. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Part 2 57 pp. [57] [first published in synonymy as Lucia pyrodiscus Leach mss, validated by Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101–133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [119]].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia (in original publication).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1♂ 1♀, Australia
  Comment: Doubleday in the original use of the name listed five specimens in the BMNH; specimens are Paralucia aurifer (Blanchard, 1848).
• Lucia pyrodiscus Rosenstock, R. 1885. Notes on Australian Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 376-385, 421-443 [377] [junior primary homonym of Lucia pyrodiscus Doubleday, 1847].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, southern Australia
  Comment: Rosenstock in the introduction to the original paper stated that he had only one specimen; Waterhouse, G.A. & Turner, R.E. 1905. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part IV. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 29(4): 798–804 [802] (referred to a type); Edwards, E.D. 1991. The nomenclature of Paralucia pyrodiscus (Doubleday) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 18: 27–30 [27] (referred to a holotype).

  Type locality references:

  Rosenstock, R. 1885. Notes on Australian Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 16: 376-385, 421-443 [376] (gave South Australia but the specimen was received from Dr T.P. Lucas of Melbourne; the species is not found in South Australia, and examination of the holotype suggests that it did not come from the neighbourhood of Melbourne where the form lucida Crosby occurs); Waterhouse, G.A. & Turner, R.E. 1905. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(4): 798-804; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [119] (gave Melbourne, VIC as the type locality); Edwards, E.D. 1991. The nomenclature of Paralucia pyrodiscus (Doubleday) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 18: 27-30.
• Chrysophanus aenea Miskin, W.H. 1890. Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Australian Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) principally Lycaenidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 29-43 [publication date: Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925)] [33].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T12383 ♂, QLD (Miskin originally gave QLD as far north as Bowen).
  Paralectotype(s) QM T12384 1♀, probably from Brisbane, QLD; QM T12385 1♀, probably from Brisbane, QLD
  Comment: Miskin in the original description mentioned both sexes but not a type; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [522] (referred to syntypes and gave type data, stated that the extant specimens from the type series were probably from Brisbane, QLD).

  Type locality references:

  Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519-528.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.

Generic Combinations

• Paralucia pyrodiscus pyrodiscus (Doubleday, 1847).

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Bursaria spinosa Cav. [PITTOSPORACEAE] Boxthorn; Bursaria incana Lindl. [PITTOSPORACEAE]; Citriobatus spinescens F.Meull. [PITTOSPORACEAE]).

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