Subspecies Telicota paceka affinis Rothschild, 1915

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• Telicota paceka affinis Rothschild, 1915.

  Type locality references:

  Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls.; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rothschild, L.W. 1915. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera. Part 1. London : Hazell, Watson & Viney pp. 1-168.
• Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls.
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.

Introduction

Meyer et al. (2022) recorded the occurrence of Telicota paceka affinis Rothschild, 1915 from Australia for the first time, based on 90 specimens collected from Dauan and Saibai Islands, Torres Strait, Queensland over the period 1975–2021. All previous records of mesoptis from this region – a male in 1989 from Mer (Murray) Island (by Johnson, 1993), and four specimens in 1973 and 1984 from Erub (Darnley) Island (by Lambkin, 2021) – were found to have been incorrectly identified and are in fact Telicota augias krefftii (W.J. Macleay).

General References

Meyer, C.E., Brown, S.S., Miller, C.G. & Weir, R.P. 2022. Occurrence of Telicota paceka affinis Rothschild, 1915 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae) in Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. Australian Entomologist 49(2): 93–98

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