Genus Tisiphone Hübner, 1819

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tisiphone Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [60].

  Type species:

   Oreas zelinde Hübner, 1808 by subsequent designation, see Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. A contribution to systematic nomenclature. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 91-293 [284]; Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [445] (discussed problems associated with the selection of a type species).
• Xenica Westwood, J.O. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1851. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 pp. 327-466 pls 59, 67. [issued 1851, dated 1850-1852] [387, footnote].

  Type species:

   Papilio abeona Donovan, 1805 by subsequent designation, see Butler, A.G. 1868. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum vi 211 pp. 4 pls. [70]; Hemming, F. 1941. The types of genera established by Doubleday, (E.) in the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, and by Westwood, (J.O.) in the continuation thereof. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1(11): 413-446 [419] (discussed the history of the name).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Waterhouse, G.A. 1914. A monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 1(1): 15-19 pl. 1 [15]
• 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] [45]
• 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. [245]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: 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), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

General References

Ackery, P.R. 1984. Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London, no. 11. Part 1 Systematics. pp. 9-21 in Vane-Wright, R.I. & Ackery, P.R. (eds). The Biology of Butterflies. London : Academic Press 429 pp. [16]

Ackery, P.R. 1988. Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 33: 95-203 [103] (bibliography)

Lucas, A.M. 1969. Clinal variation in pattern and colour in coastal populations of the butterfly Tisiphone abeona (Donovan) (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 17: 37-48 [37]

Miller, L.D. 1968. The higher classification, phylogeny and zoogeography of the Satyridae (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 24: i-iii, 1-174 [81]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1914. A monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 1(1): 15-19 pl. 1 [15]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1923. Presidential address. A further account of breeding experiments with the satyrine genus Tisiphone. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(1): xiii-xvi pls 1-2 [publication date: Anon. 1929. List showing dates of publication of parts of the Proceedings for each year. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Index to vols 1–50 (1875–1925)] [xiii]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. A second monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 5(3): 217-240 pls 25-26 [217]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [106]

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] [45]

 

History of changes

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