Subspecies Sabera fuliginosa fuliginosa (Miskin, 1889)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pamphila fuliginosa 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]] [147].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T.12437 ♀, Cardwell, 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 female in the QM).
• Telesto bicolor Rothschild, L.W. 1915. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera. Part 1. London : Hazell, Watson & Viney pp. 1-168. [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (Rothschild in the original description mentioned a type), Snow Mtns, 4000–6000 ft, Irian Jaya (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1♂, Utakwa River, 3000 ft, Irian Jaya.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [421]
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [168]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Irian Jaya.

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), 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. [222] (description, distribution)

Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [166] (as Sabera fuliginosa (Miskin, 1889))

Meyrick, E. & Lower, O. 1902. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26(2): 38-129 [115] (as Erynnis fuliginosa (Miskin, 1889), description)

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 [76] (as Pamphila fuliginosa Miskin, 1889, description of male)

Muller, C.J. & Wood, G.A. 1999. The life history of Sabera fuliginosa fuliginosa (Miskin) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) and additional hostplants for other members of the genus in northern Queensland. Australian Entomologist 26(4): 111-114 [111] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. III. Descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(5–6): 409-410 [Date published 15/Dec/1932: date given as 15 December 1932 by Atkins, A.F. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. pp. 232–235, 357 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, V.R. (eds). Hesperiidae. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing pp.xiv 529. [357]] [410] (as Sabera orida fuliginosa (Miskin, 1889))

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, 264] (as Sabera orida fuliginosa (Miskin, 1889))

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] (as Sabera orida fuliginosa (Miskin, 1889))

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 fuliginosa (Miskin, 1889), description, illustration)

 

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)