Subspecies Theclinesthes onycha onycha (Hewitson, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Utica onycha Hewitson, W.C. 1865. Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera. Lycaenidae. Text. London : John van Voorst Vol. 1(2) 37-76 pp. [56].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia (in original description).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1♀, Australia
  Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, but he described the female; Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp. [174] (listed four specimens in the Hewitson collection).

  Type locality references:

  Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp.; Waterhouse, G.A. 1913. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(4): 698-702 [701] (concluded 'Hewitson's type is a female and agrees best with specimens from North Queensland'; he then referred to Kuranda, Cooktown and Cape York, QLD, as possible localities, but gave no reason for believing that one of Hewitson's original specimens belonged to this northern Queensland population but may well have had a reason); Sibatani, A. & Grund, R.B. 1978. A revision of the Theclinesthes onycha complex (Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae). Tyô to Ga (Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan) 29(1): 1-34 [Date published March 1, 1978] [6] (gave Australia (probably from near Sydney, NSW) as the type locality).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [563]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [407]

Sibatani, A. & Grund, R.B. 1978. A revision of the Theclinesthes onycha complex (Lepidoptera; Lycaenidae). Tyô to Ga (Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan) 29(1): 1-34 [Date published March 1, 1978] [5]

 

History of changes

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28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
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