Subspecies Taenaris artemis jamesi Butler, 1877

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Subspecies Taenaris artemis jamesi Butler, 1877

Taenaris jamesi Butler, A.G. 1877. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera from New Guinea, with notice of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876(4): 765-768 pl. 77 [767 pl. 77 fig. 4] [incorrect subsequent spelling of Taenaris as Tenaris].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH Rh6058 ♀, Yule Is., Papua New Guinea (in introduction to the original description)
Comment: Butler in the original description did not state the number of specimens described; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [541] (label data, sex and repository).
Taenaris onesimus Butler, A.G. 1877. On a collection of Lepidoptera from Cape York and the south-east coast of New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877(3): 466-475 [publication date: Duncan, F.M. 1937. Dates of publication of the society's Proceedings, 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of "Proceedings" 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the "Transactions", 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London A 107: 71–84] [468].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH Rh6308 ♀ (Butler in the original description stated that he had one specimen), New Guinea (in original description)
Comment: Riley, N.D. & Gabriel, A.G. 1924. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera in the British Museum. Part I. Satyrinae. London : British Museum 62 pp. [41] (listed a type in the BMNH); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [541] (label data, sex and repository).
Type locality references:
Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [541] (gave the locality of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and implied it was the type locality).
Taenaris sticheli Fruhstorfer, H. 1901. Nachrichten aus dem Berliner Entomologischen Verein. Insektenbörse 18(47): 373 [373] [incorrect subsequent spelling of Taenaris as Tenaris].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH Rh15303 ♂, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea (designated in original description)
Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [541] (gave the sex, repository and label data of a specimen, presumably a type, but neither stated it was from the type series nor mentioned a type).
Taenaris artemis queenslandica Rothschild, L.W. 1916. Notes on Amathusiidae, Brassolidae, Morphidae, etc., with descriptions of new forms. Novitates Zoologicae 23(3): 299-334 [304].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (Rothschild in the original description mentioned that he had one male), North Queensland (designated in original description).
Taenaris artemis zetes Brooks, C.J. 1944. New species and forms of Tenaris (Lep. Amathusiidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London B 13(9–10): 109-116 [114] [incorrect subsequent spelling of Taenaris as Tenaris].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Murray Is., Torres Strait (as Murry Is., Gulf of Papua, in original description)
Comment: Brooks in the original description mentioned both sexes; Brooks, C.J. 1950. A revision of the genus Tenaris. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 101(6): 179–238 [237] (mentioned types); 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. (Brooks' (1950) mention of types cannot be a lectotype designation as it was not singular).

Distribution

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Queensland

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.

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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)