Species Pasma tasmanica (Miskin, 1889)
Tasmanica Skipper, Two-spotted Grass-skipper
- Hesperilla tasmanicus Miskin, W.H. 1889. Descriptions of some new species of Australian Hesperidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 6(4): 146-154 [publication date: Anon. 1889. Royal Society of Queensland. Annual Meeting, 12th July, 1889. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 6: i–xi [iv, vi, x]] [149].
Type data:
Lectotype QM T.12434 ♂, Tasmania (designated in original description; lectotype came from George Barnard who lived near Launceston)
Comment: Miskin in the original publication did not indicate the number of specimens he described, he stated that he was describing females but the syntype labelled by Waterhouse & Wild in 1910 was a male (Waterhouse ms in ANIC); 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 [526] (type information).Subsequent designation references:
Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [141] (referred to a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [114] (referred to a holotype, which is the male he and Wild labelled in 1910 (Waterhouse ms ANIC)); Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [7] (referred to a holotype); 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 [526] (interpreted Waterhouse's (1937) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985); Lower's designation antedated that of Waterhouse); 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 Lower's (1911) reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)). - Telesto comma Kirby, W.F. 1893. Descriptions of new Australian Hesperiidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 12: 434-438 [436].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Victoria (indicated in introduction to Kirby's paper)
Comment: Kirby in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1894. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 2. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. 79–129 pp. [128] (did not indicate that they had sent Kirby a single specimen).Subsequent designation references:
Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [141] (referred to a type); Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [114] (referred to a holotype and stated that the 'holotype' was a male and not a female as stated by Kirby); 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 Lower's (1911) reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Anderson, E. & Spry, F.P. 1894. Victorian Butterflies and How to Collect Them. Part 2. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. pp. 79-129. [128] (suggested the synonymy but were not definite about it)
- Meyrick, E. & Lower, O. 1902. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26(2): 38-129 [96] (formally synonymised the names)
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
From Stanthorpe, QLD, to Barrington National Park, NSW, from Blue Mountains, NSW, to The Grampians, VIC, Mt William to Dover and to Lake Petrarch, central highlands TAS.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Poa spp. [POACEAE]).
Extra Ecological Information
Females have been observed laying eggs on Microlaena stipiodes and Poa labillardieri (Poaceae).
General References
Atkins, A.F. 1988. The life history of Pasma tasmanica (Miskin) and Toxidia rietmanni (Semper) (Hesperiidae: Trapezitinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 14(6): 93-97 [93]
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [134] (biology)
Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [7] (taxonomy, bibliography)
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] [183] (as Anisynta tasmanica, description)
History of changes
| 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 |
| 06-Sep-2017 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 06-Sep-2017 | HESPERIIDAE | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Lyn Randall |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Mar-2013 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED |