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Species Taractrocera ina Waterhouse, 1932

Ina Grassdart, No-brand Grass-dart

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Papua New Guinea.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Panicum maximum Jacq., 1781 [POACEAE] Guinea Grass; Oryza sativa L. [POACEAE] Rice; Urochloa decumbens (Stapf) R.D.Webster [POACEAE] Signal Grass; Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf [POACEAE] Wild Sorghum; Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf [POACEAE]; Paspalum urvillei Steudel [POACEAE]; Paspalum conjugatum Berg. [POACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants are all introduced grasses.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [196]

Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [146] (originally misidentified and described the holotype male Taractrocera ina Waterhouse, 1932 as a female Taractrocera anisomorpha (Lower, 1911))

 

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)
07-Mar-2024 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023 PAPILIONOIDEA 22-Dec-2023 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
06-Sep-2017 PAPILIONOIDEA 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017 HESPERIIDAE 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED Lyn Randall
05-Mar-2013 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
05-Apr-2011 05-Apr-2011 MOVED
05-Mar-2013 07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED
07-Mar-2024 MODIFIED