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Species Taenaris artemis (Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1860)

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Species Taenaris artemis (Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1860)

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Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya), 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

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Indonesia
    • Aru Islands
    • Irian Jaya
  • Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded from the Australian mainland, but in New Guinea the immature stages have been reared on Pandanus sp. (Pandanaceae) and Coconut, Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae), and on Murray Island, Torres Strait, a single larva has been found on Pandanus sp.

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Taenaris artemis artemis (Snellen van Vallenhoven, 1860)

Drusilla artemis Snellen van Vollenhoven, S.C. 1860. Over eenige nieuwe soorten van dagvlinders uit Oost-Indië. [New butterflies from the Dutch East Indies.]. Tijdschr. Ent. 3: 35–45 pls 1–4 [37 pl. 1 figs 1–2].
Type data: lectotype RMNH ♂*; Snellen van Vollenhoven in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Subsequent designation: Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Amathusiidae]. pp. 403–448 in Seitz, A. (ed). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279 [271]] [414] (publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279 [271]; referred to a holotype, and stated 'the type probably came from Sorong or some other place in Dutch north-west New Guinea'); Brooks, C.J. 1950. A revision of the genus Tenaris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 101(6): 179–238 [233] (Brooks' referred to a type); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [541] (referred to a holotype and gave a repository); Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (interpret Fruhstorfer's reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
Type locality: New Guinea (as Nieuw-Guinea in original description).

 

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)
05-Mar-2013 05-Mar-2013 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 30-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011 MOVED