Subspecies Protographium leosthenes leosthenes (Doubleday, 1846) (alternate copy)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Papilio leosthenes Doubleday, E. 1846. Descriptions of new or imperfectly described diurnal Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 18: 371-376 [372].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH Rh10876 1♂, Australia (designated in original description; no more accurate locality has been suggested); OUM sex unknown (the specimen listed by Doubleday in the Saunders collection should be in OUM)
  Comment: Doubleday in the original description indicated that specimens were in three collections; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp. [6] (mentioned a specimen labelled as type in BMNH and gave its sex and accession number); Gray, G.R. 1856. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Papilionidae. London : British Museum 106 pp. [41] (did not list this specimen).

  Type locality references:

  Gray, G.R. 1856. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Papilionidae. London : British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 iii 106 pp.; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danainae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 29 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Moa Is. Torres Strait, from Cape York, QLD, to the Manning River, NSW, records of vagrants at Sydney and Bulli, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

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. [233] (biology)

Tindale, N.B. 1927. A new butterfly of the genus Papilio from Arnhem Land. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3(3): 339-341 fig. 106 [341]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [38] (biology)

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] [126]

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] [165] (description)

 

History of changes

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05-Mar-2013		12-Oct-2015	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		05-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
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