Subspecies Tisiphone abeona regalis Waterhouse, 1928
- Tisiphone abeona regalis Waterhouse, G.A. 1928. A second monograph of the genus Tisiphone Hübner. The Australian Zoologist 5(3): 217-240 pls 25-26 [228 pl. 26 figs 1, 1a, 2, 2a].
Type data:
Holotype AM KL03297 ♂ (Waterhouse in the original description designated a holotype), Barrington Tops, NSW (designated in original description).
Paratype(s) AM KL03300 1♀, Barrington Tops, NSW; AM KL03298 1♂, Barrington Tops, NSW; AM KL03299 1♀, Barrington Tops, NSW; AM KL03301 1♂, Barrington Tops, NSW; AM KL03302 5♂ 6♀, Barrington Tops, NSW; AM KL03303 2♀, Barrington Tops, NSW; AM KL03304 5♂ 3♀, Barrington Tops, NSW
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. [22] (type information).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Mountains from Stanthorpe, QLD, to Bellangry State Forest, NSW.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), 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. [370] (description, distribution)
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. 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
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| 05-Mar-2013 | 05-Mar-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-Mar-2012 | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Apr-2011 | MOVED |