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Species Ogyris zosine (Hewitson, 1853)

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Species Ogyris zosine (Hewitson, 1853)

Northern Purple Azure, Purple Azure

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal
  • Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Amyema pendula (Sieber ex Spreng.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Drooping Mistletoe; Amyema quandang (Lindl.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Grey Mistletoe; Amyema cambagei (Blakely) Danser [LORANTHACEAE] Needle-leaf Mistletoe; Dendrophthoe glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE] Orange Mistletoe; Amyema miquelii (Lehm. ex Miq.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE] Stalked Mistletoe; Muellerina celastroides Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema conspicua (F.M.Bailey) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema maidenii (Blakely) Barlow [LORANTHACEAE]; Amyema sanguinea (F.Muell.) Danser [LORANTHACEAE]; Decaisnina signata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe curvata Blume [LORANTHACEAE]; Dendrophthoe vitellina (F.Muell.) Tiegh. [LORANTHACEAE]).

 

General References

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1905. A monograph of the genus Ogyris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905: 269-292 [278]

Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1916. Notes on the synonymy of the Genus Ogyris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(17): 386-390 [386]

Braby, M.F. 1997. New larval food plants for some butterflies (Lepidoptera) from northern and central Queensland, Australia. Australian Entomologist 24: 97-108 [101] (biology)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [476]

Eastwood, R. 1997. Field observations on the symbiotic interactions of Ogyris genoveva (Hewitson) and Ogyris zosine (Hewitson) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with Camponotus spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Entomologist 24(3): 137-143 [137] (biology)

Miskin, W.H. 1890. A revision of the Australian Genus Ogyris with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 23-28 [23]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [396]

Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [344]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [245]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1941. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae VIII. On Ogyris zosine Hew. and O. genoveva Hew. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3–4): 233-238 [235]

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] [119]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023 PAPILIONOIDEA 22-Dec-2023 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 LYCAENIDAE Leach, 1815 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017 LYCAENIDAE 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Federica Turco (QM)
05-Mar-2013 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED