Subspecies Tirumala hamata hamata (Macleay, 1826)

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• Euploea hamata Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [461] [incorrect subsequent spelling of Euploea as Euplaea].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Cape Cleveland and other parts of the north-eastern coast of Australia (in original description)
  Comment: Macleay in the original description mentioned that many specimens were observed but did not indicate the number described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101–133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [104] (stated that the types of Macleay described from King's voyage were lost or destroyed); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [499] (incorrectly stated that a syntype was in the AM; 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. [19] (did not list any type material in the AM); 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. (there is an illustration in the J.S. Battye Library of Western Australian History in Perth made by P.P. King or J.S. Roe of a syntype, the illustration is of a male).
• Danais australis Blanchard, C.E. 1848. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville, Capitaine de vaisseau; publié par ordre du Gouvernement, sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de vaisseau, commandant de la Zélée. Zoologie. Description des Insectes. Atlas. Paris : E. Thunot 25 pls (3 pls butterflies). [pl. 2 figs 5, 6] [the named plates were published in 1848, a description was published in Blanchard, C.E. 1853. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville, Capitaine de vaisseau; publié par ordre du Gouvernement, sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de vaisseau, commandant de la Zélée. Zoologie. Description des Insectes. Paris : E. Thunot Vol. 4 1–422 pp. (388) at a later date].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown sex unknown, Raffles Bay, NT (as Rafles-Bay sur la côte nord de la Nouvelle Hollande in original description)
  Comment: Blanchard in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bryk, F. 1937. Family Danainae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus. Pt 78 pp. 1–432; Corrigenda Pt 80 pp. 641–642. [118]
• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [247]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), 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), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• New Zealand

Distribution References

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. [306] (as Danus hamatus hamatus (Macleay, 1826), biology)

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Nymphalidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 4 513-660 pp. [516]

Scheermeyer, E. 1999. The Crows, Euploea species with notes on the Blue Tiger, Tirumala hamata (Nymphalidae: Danainae). pp. 191-216 in Kitching, R.L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R.L. & Pierce, N.E. (eds). Biology of Australian Butterflies. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xvi 395 pp. [191] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [18] (as Danaida melissa hamata (Macleay, 1827), description, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	19-Jul-2017	MODIFIED
01-Feb-2016	Danaini	01-Nov-2016	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED