Species Taractrocera ilia Waterhouse, 1932
Northern Grass-dart
- Taractrocera udraka ilia Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. Australian Hesperiidae. II. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(3–4): 218-238 [229].
Type data:
Lectotype AM KL10885 ♂, King River, NT (Waterhouse in original description recorded King River, NT, Port Darwin and Melville Is.).
Paralectotype(s) AM KL10886 1♀, King River, NT; AM KL10887 2♂; SAMA ♂; whereabouts unknown ♂; AM KL10887 2♂, King River, NT; NMV T.14456 1♂, King River, NT
Comment: Waterhouse indicated in the original description that he described several specimens.Type locality references:
Peters, J.V. 1971. A Catalogue of the Type Specimens of the Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) in the Australian Museum. Greenwich, NSW : Australian Entomological Press 36 pp. [15] (restricted the type locality to King River, NT).
Introduction
Raised to full species status by Waterhouse (1933).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
Extra Ecological Information
Larval food plant not recorded.
General References
Braby, M. F. & Zwick, A. 2015. Taxonomic revision of the Taractrocera ilia (Waterhouse) complex (Lepidoptera : Hesperiidae) from north-western Australia and mainland New Guinea based on morphological and molecular data. Invertebrate Systematics 29: 487-509 [500] (comments on taxonomic history and lectotipification)
Waterhouse, G.A. 1933. Australian Hesperiidae. IV. Notes and descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 58: 461-466 [464]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06-Sep-2017 | HESPERIIDAE | 19-Nov-2015 | MODIFIED | Lyn Randall |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 05-Mar-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |