Genus Symbrenthia Hübner, 1819

Museums

Regional Maps

• Symbrenthia Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [43].
• Mynes Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [129].

  Type species:

   Nymphalis geoffroyi Guérin-Méneville, 1830 by subsequent designation, see Wallace, A.R. 1869. Notes on eastern butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 17: 77-81, 277-288, 321-349 [77].

  Secondary source:

   Fric, Z., Konvicka, M. and Zrzavy, J. 2004. Red & black or black & white? Phylogeny of the Araschnia butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and evolution of seasonal polyphenism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17: 265–278 (The species geoffroyii was combined with Symbrenthia Hübner, 1819 by Fric et al. (2004), who reconstructed the phylogeny of the butterfly genera Araschnia, Symbrenthia, Mynes Boisduval, 1832 and Brensymthia Huang, 2000 based on cladistic analysis of 140 morphological and ecological characters. Symbrenthia was found to be paraphyletic with respect to Mynes and Brensymthia; since Symbrenthia is the oldest name, Mynes and Brensymthia were synonymised under Symbrenthia. Thus, all species of Mynes and Brensymthia were transferred to Symbrenthia.).
• Brensymthia Huang, H. 2000. A list of butterflies collected from Tibet during 1993–1996, with new descriptions, revisional notes and discussion on zoogeography – 1. Lambillionea, Revue Internationale d'Entomologie 50: 141-158.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fric, Z., Konvicka, M. and Zrzavy, J. 2004. Red & black or black & white? Phylogeny of the Araschnia butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and evolution of seasonal polyphenism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17: 265–278

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York to northern NSW, east of the Great Dividing Range; Indonesia to Solomon Islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Ackery, P.R. 1988. Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 33: 95-203 [163] (bibliography)

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [388]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [597]

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] [56]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	PAPILIONOIDEA	24-Dec-2020	ADDED	Dr Michael Braby