Subspecies Tisiphone abeona morrisi Waterhouse, 1914

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• Tisiphone abeona morrisi Waterhouse, G.A. 1914. A monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 1(1): 15-19 pl. 1 [18 pl. 1 figs 19, 24, 25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM KL03265 ♂, Ballina, Richmond River, NSW (in original description Bellinger River, NSW, to Southport, QLD, including Ballina and Ebor, NSW, was given).
  Paralectotype(s) AM KL03266 1♀, Ballina, NSW; AM KL03267 ♂; AM KL03268 ♂; AM KL03269 ♀; AM KL03271 ♂; AM KL03257 1♂, Ballina, NSW; AM KL03268 1♂ 2♀, Ballina, NSW; AM KL03269 1♀, Ballina, NSW; AM KL03271 1♂, Ballina, NSW; AM KL03273 1♀, Ballina, NSW; AM KL03274 1♀, Ballina, NSW; AM KL03275 5♂ 2♀, Ballina, NSW
  Comment: Waterhouse in the original description mentioned many specimens; Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. A second monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. Australian Zoologist 5(3): 217–240 pls 25–26 [227] (type information); 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] (referred to a holotype and gave type information); 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 specimen identifiers).

  Type locality references:

  Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. A second monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 5(3): 217-240 pls 25-26 [227] (restricted the type locality to Ballina, NSW).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Southport, QLD, to Crescent Head, NSW, not found in recent years in QLD, between Crescent Head and Camden Haven a very variable population exists

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

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] (biology)

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. [55]

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. 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 [227] (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] [107]

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] [47] (description, distribution)

 

History of changes

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		05-Apr-2011	MOVED