Species Acrodipsas myrmecophila (Waterhouse & Lyell, 1913)

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• Pseudodipsas myrmecophila Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1913. Descriptions of a new Lycaenid butterfly, with notes on its life-history. Victorian Naturalist 29: 156-160, pl. 9 [158].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL22349 ♂, Ocean Grove, VIC (Ocean Grove and Wandin, VIC, and Sydney, NSW, given in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL22352 23♂ 23♀, Ocean Grove, VIC; AM KL22351 1♂, Ocean Grove, VIC; AM KL22350 1♀, Ocean Grove, VIC; AM KL22358 1♀, Killara, NSW; AM KL22356 1♀, Como, NSW
  Comment: Waterhouse & Lyell in the original description mentioned both sexes, several localities, and illustrated six specimens 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] (gave the label locality of the lectotype); Sands, D.P.A. 1980. A new genus, Acrodipsas, for a group of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) previously referred to Pseudodipsas C. & R. Felder, with descriptions of two new species from northern Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18(3): 251-265 [Date published 14/Mar/1980] [260] (gave the label locality of the lectotype).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: attendant ants, myrmecophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food/attendant ants, Papyrius sp. (nitidus group) [FORMICIDAE] (Dolichoderinae).

 

General References

Britton, D.R., New, T.R. & Jelinek, A. 1995. Rare Lepidoptera at Mt Piper, Victoria – the role of a threatened butterfly community in advancing understanding of insect conservation. Journal of the Lepidoptera Society 49: 97-113 [103] (biology)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [428] (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. [339] (distribution)

Kerr, J.F.R., Macqueen, J. & Sands, D.P. 1968. The specific status of Pseudodipsas illidgei Waterhouse and Lyell stat. n. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7: 28 [28] (removal of illidgei from subspecific status)

New, T.R. & Britton, D.R. 1997. Refining a conservation plan for an endangered lycaenid butterfly, Acrodipsas myrmecophila, in Victoria, Australia. Journal of Insect Conservation 1: 1-8 [1] (conservation)

Sands, D.P.A. 1980. A new genus, Acrodipsas, for a group of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) previously referred to Pseudodipsas C. & R. Felder, with descriptions of two new species from northern Queensland. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 18(3): 251-265 [Date published 14/Mar/1980] [260] (taxonomy)

Smales, M. & Ledward, C.P. 1942. Notes on the life-histories of some lycaenid butterflies—Part I. Queensland Naturalist 12(1): 14-18 [16] (observations)

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] [139] (distribution, observations)

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] [83] (taxonomy, subspecific division)

 

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