Subspecies Sabera caesina albifascia (Miskin, 1889)

Museums

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• Pamphila albifascia Miskin, W.H. 1889. Descriptions of some new species of Australian Hesperidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 6(4): 146-154 [publication date: Anon. 1889. Royal Society of Queensland. Annual Meeting, 12th July, 1889. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 6: i–xi [iv, vi, x]] [148].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T.12435 ♂, Herbert River, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: Miskin in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [526] (located a single type in the QM).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [221] (description, distribution)

Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [166] (treated Pamphila albifascia Miskin, 1889 as a synonym of Sabera caesina (Hewitson, 1866))

Meyrick, E. & Lower, O. 1902. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26(2): 38-129 [118] (considered Pamphila albifascia Miskin, 1889 as a synonym of Erynnis caesina (Hewitson, 1866))

Miskin, W.H. 1891. A synonymical catalogue of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera (Butterflies) of Australia with full bibliographical reference: including descriptions of some new species. Annals of the Queensland Museum 1: [i]-xx 1-[93] [i]-ix [75] (treated Pamphila albifascia Miskin, 1889 as a synonym of Carystus caesina (Hewitson, 1866))

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] [264] (description, distribution)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [124]

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] [213] (as Sabera caesina albifascia (Miskin, 1889), description, illustrations)

Wood, G.A. 1986. The life history of Sabera caesina albifascia (Miskin) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 12(6): 112-113 [112] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011		05-Apr-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)