Subspecies Pseudalmenus chlorinda myrsilus (Westwood, 1851)

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• Ialmenus myrsilus Westwood, J.O. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1851. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 pp. 327-466 pls 59, 67. [issued 1851, dated 1850-1852] [vol 2 pl. 75 fig. 3] [later (1852) in the same publication (p. 487), Westwood referred to it as Thecla myrsilus].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Tasmania (in original description)
  Comment: Westwood in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; described from the BMNH from which Doubleday had a few years earlier listed eight specimens; Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (the neallotype mentioned by Couchman has no status).

  Type locality references:

  Couchman, L.E. 1965. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 99: 81-85 pl. 1 figs 1-10 [82] (did not give a type locality but applied the name to specimens from the Tasman Peninsula, TAS; he considered it possible that the lectotype came from near the coal mines in the Saltwater River area); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to Rheban and the Forestier and Tasman Peninsulas.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: attendant ants, herbivore.

 

General References

Couchman, L.E. 1965. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. II. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 99: 81-85 pl. 1 figs 1-10 [82] (gave subspecific status)

Couchman, L.E. & Couchman, R. 1977. The butterflies of Tasmania. Tasmanian Year Book No. 11. pp. 66–96. [76]

Prince, G.B. 1988. The Conservation Status of the Hairstreak Butterfly Pseudalmenus chlorinda Blanchard in Tasmania. A Report to the Department of Lands, Parks and Wildlife, Tasmania. 1-46 pp. [1] (conservation)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)