Species Petrelaea tombugensis (Röber, 1886)

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• Plebeius tombugensis Röber, J.K.M. 1886. Neue Tagschmetterlinge der Indo-Australischen Fauna. Correspondenz-Blatt des entomologischen Vereins Iris zu Dresden 1: 45-72 [63 pl. 5].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MTKD ♂, Tomboegoe, East Sulawesi (designated in original description)
  Comment: Röber in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
• Nacaduba obscura Grose-Smith, H. 1894. An account of a collection of diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr. W. Doherty at Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, and in neighbouring islands, in the museum of the Honourable Walter Rothschild at Tring, with descriptions of new species. Novitates Zoologicae 1(iii): 571-584 [574].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Humboldt Bay, Irian Jaya. Humbolt Bay, Dutch New Guinea and neighboring islands (designated in original description)
  Comment: Grose-Smith in the original description referred to three males but not a type.

  Type locality references:

  Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 13(4): 7-116 pl. 2 [109] (gave the type locality as Humbolt Bay).
• Nacaduba ios 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] [99].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL23501 ♂, Moa (Banks) Is., QLD (Thursday Is. and Banks Is., QLD, were given in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL23502 1♀, Moa (Banks) Is., QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned two males and three females but not a type.

  Type locality references:

  Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [28] (restricted the type locality to Banks Is.).
• Nacaduba subdubiosa Rothschild, L.W. 1915. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera. Part 1. London : Hazell, Watson & Viney pp. 1-168. [29].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Utakwa River 4000–6000 ft, Irian Jaya (Base Camp, Canoe Camp and Utakwa River 4000–6000 ft mentioned in original description)
  Comment: Rothschild in the original description mentioned three males from three localities.

  Type locality references:

  Tite, G.E. 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 13(4): 7-116 pl. 2 [109] (restricted the type locality to Utakwa River, 4000–6000 ft, Irian Jaya).
• Lycaena ardeola Staudinger, O. 1889. Lepidopteren der Insel Palawan. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 2(1): 3-180 [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (Staudinger in the original description implied that he had one male), Palawan, Philippines (designated in original description).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fujioka, T. & Chiba, H. 1988. Notes on the distributions of some Japanese butterflies. Special Bulletin of Lepidopterological Society of Japan 6: 141-149 [143]
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lycaenidae. pp. 249-254, 360-363 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [252]
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [420]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Oriental Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded, but in QLD females have been observed laying eggs on flower buds of Terminalia catappa and T. muelleri (Combretaceae) on Thursday Is., and on flowers of T. catappa on the mainland at El Arish, QLD.

 

General References

Fujioka, T. & Chiba, H. 1988. Notes on the distributions of some Japanese butterflies. Special Bulletin of Lepidopterological Society of Japan 6: 141-149 [143]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [420]

 

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