Subspecies Pseudodipsas eone iole Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914

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• Pseudodipsas eone iole 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] [81].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL22457 ♂, Kuranda, QLD (original description listed Cape York, Prince of Wales Is., Claudie River, Kuranda, Atherton, Herberton, and Innisfail, QLD).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL22458 1♀, Kuranda, QLD
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description listed 13 males and 23 females but did not mention 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 Kuranda, QLD).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known from Prince of Wales Is. to Bluewater State Forest near Townsville, QLD; extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

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. [437] (distribution, identification, life-history)

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [343] (distribution, life-history)

Lane, D.A. 1985. Notes on the biology and distribution of some Queensland butterflies. Australian Entomological Magazine 12(5): 77-80 [78] (observations)

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [345]

Valentine, P.S. & Johnson, S.J. 1988. Some new larval food plants for north Queensland Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Australian Entomological Magazine 14(6): 89-91 [89] (observations)

 

History of changes

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