Subspecies Tisiphone abeona rawnsleyi (Miskin, 1876)

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Subspecies Tisiphone abeona rawnsleyi (Miskin, 1876)

Epinephile rawnsleyi Miskin, W.H. 1876. Descriptions of new species of Australian diurnal Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 24(3): 451-457 [454].
Type data:
Holotype QM T12366 ♂ (Miskin in the original description stated that he had a single specimen), Maroochy River, QLD (as Maroochey River, near Brisbane, QLD, in original description)
Comment: Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [521] (referred to a holotype and gave type information).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Fraser Is. to Toorbul Point, QLD.

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)

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

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE 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. [370] (description, distribution)

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. [56]

Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Satyridae]. 285-401 pls 87-99 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279] [306] (description, distribution)

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

Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. A second monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 5(3): 217-240 pls 25-26 [229] (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)