Subspecies Tisiphone abeona albifascia Waterhouse, 1904
- Tisiphone abeona albifascia Waterhouse, G.A. 1904. On a new species of Heteronympha and a new variety of Tisiphone abeona Don. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29(3): 466-468 [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)] [468].
Type data:
Lectotype AM KL03425 ♂, Wandin South, VIC (Waterhouse gave VIC and SE NSW in original description).
Paralectotype(s) AM KL03426 1♀, Wandin South, VIC; AM KL03427 ♂; AM KL03427 1♂ 1♀, Wandin South, VIC
Comment: Waterhouse in the original description referred to both sexes; 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. [22] (type information).Type locality references:
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. [22] (restricted the type locality to Wandin South, VIC). - Tisiphone abeona antoni Tindale, N.B. 1947. A new race of Tisiphone abeona Donovan (Lepidoptera Rhopalocera) from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8: 613-618 [614 pl. 19 figs 5-8].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA I.18951 ♂ (Tindale in the original description designated a holotype), Lake Edward, SA (designated in original description).
Paratype(s) SAMA I.8951 1♀, Lake Edward, SA; SAMA 3 sex unknown, Dartmoor, and Mackenzie Creek, VIC; AM KL04929 1♂, Lake Edward, SA; NMV 1 sex unknown (not listed in the NMV web site), Dartmoor or Mackenzie Creek, VIC
Comment: 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. [23] (type information).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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. [552]
- Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Black Range, NSW, to Port Macdonnell, SA.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- South Australia: SE coastal
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE 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. [368] (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. [552] (considered subspecies antoni to be a synonym of the subspecies albifascia)
Fisher, R.H. 1978. Butterflies of South Australia (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea). Adelaide : South Australian Government. Handbooks Series 272 pp. [160] (as Tisiphone abeona antoni Tindale)
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]
Waterhouse, G.A. 1914. A monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 1(1): 15-19 pl. 1 [16]
Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. A second monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 5(3): 217-240 pls 25-26 [224] (description, distribution)
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] [46] (description, distribution)
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