Subspecies Pelopidas lyelli lyelli (Rothschild, 1915)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Parnara lyelli Rothschild, L.W. 1915. On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A.S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier, and Vulcan Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 22: 192-208, 387-442 [400].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Rothschild in the original description referred to a type), Karkar Is. (as Dampier), Papua New Guinea (designated in original description).

  Type locality references:

  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 [119] (incorrectly gave Vulcan Is. as the type locality).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), 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. [229]

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 agna dingo Evans)

 

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)