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Subspecies Tisiphone abeona aurelia Waterhouse, 1915

Tisiphone abeona aurelia Waterhouse, G.A. 1915. Further notes on the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 1(2): 50-51 [50].
Type data:
Lectotype AM KL03361 ♂, Port Stephens, NSW (designated in original description; 'holotype' of Peters (1971: 22) originally came from Port Stephens, NSW).
Paralectotype(s) AM KL03362 ♀, Port Stephens, NSW; AM KL03363 5♂; AM KL03364 2♂; AM 5♂ 3♀, Port Stephens, NSW; AM 2♂ 2♀, Port Stephens, NSW
Comment: Waterhouse in the original description referred to types from Port Stephens; 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. (Waterhouse had 25 specimens, but only the Port Stephens ones are types).
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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Camden Haven to Newcastle, NSW, between Crescent Head and Camden Haven a very variable population exists, see [joanna].

Australian Endemic.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: 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. [369] (description, distribution, noted similarity to the nominate abeona)

Conroy, B.A. 1971. Geographic variation and speciation in the swordgrass brown butterfly, Tisiphone abeona Donovan. Unpubl. Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Sydney, Sydney. 232 pp. [59]

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. [551] (considered the subspecies abeona aurelia to be a synonym abeona abeona)

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. 1928. A second monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 5(3): 217-240 pls 25-26 [225] (description, distribution)

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] [108] (description, distribution)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED