Subspecies Pseudalmenus chlorinda chloris Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

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• Pseudalmenus chlorinda chloris 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] [114 figs 870, 871].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL20781 ♂, Katoomba, NSW (Blue Mountains, NSW, given in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL20782 1♀, Katoomba, NSW
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description listed three males and one female.

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 401-412, pl. 25 [412] (gave the type locality as Katoomba, NSW); 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. [24] (gave the locality of the 'holotype' as Katoomba, NSW).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to the Blue Mountains and nearby areas at altitudes of 300–1200 m, including Mt Banks, Katoomba, Blackheath, Oberon, Mittagong, Belmore Falls and Mt Kembla near Wollongong, specimens from Mt Canobolas are tentatively included here.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: attendant ants, herbivore.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [512]

Edwards, E. & Edwards, E.O. 1963. Life history of Pseudalmenus chlorinda chloris (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). The Australian Zoologist 13(1): 30 [Date published September 1963] [30] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 401-412, pl. 25 [412]

Wyatt, C. 1955. Going Wild. The autobiography of a bug-hunter. London : Hollis & Carter pp. xii 1-214. [118]

 

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