Subspecies Pelopidas agna dingo Evans, 1949

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pelopidas agna dingo Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [439].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Evans in the original description referred to a type), Aroa River, Owen Stanley Range, Papua New Guinea (as New Guinea, designated in original description).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lane & Moulds (2015: 33) report this species from Hammond Island, Torres Strait; extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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 Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

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. [228]

Couchman, L.E. 1962. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 96: 73-81 pl. 1 [73] (gave characters to distinguish from Pelopidas lyelli (Rothschild))

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		22-Jul-2015	MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011		05-Apr-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)