Subspecies Toxidia inornata inornata (Butler, 1883)

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• Thanaos inornatus Butler, A.G. 1883. The Lepidoptera collected during the recent expedition of H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 11: 402-428 [424].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Aru Is., Indonesia (designated in original description)
  Comment: Butler did not indicate in the original description the number of specimens described and also incorrectly considered his specimen(s) males.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [216] (referred to a type and gave extralimital distribution); Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [155] (mentioned a holotype unjustifiably); 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. (interpret Evans' (1949) reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Hesperia maykora Plötz, C. 1885. Neue Hesperiden des Indischen Archipels und Ost-Africa's aus der Collection des Herrn H. Ribbe in Blasewitz-Dresden, gesammelt von den Herren: C. Ribbe auf Celebes, Java und den Aru-Inseln; Künstler auf Malacca (Perak); Kühn auf West-Guinea (Jekar); Menger auf Ceylon. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 29(2): 225-232 [225].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown ♂, Aru ls., Indonesia (designated as Aru Insel. in original description)
  Comment: Plötz in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 62(3–4): 107–125 [108] discussed the Plötz types; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101–133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [106] (discussed the Plötz types); Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls [469] (discussed the Plötz types); 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. (Plötz illustrated all his species but never published the illustrations—some, including maykora, were probably published in Pl. 167 of Seitz, A. 1927. The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 5).
• Telesto uniformis Swinhoe, C. 1905. On new and little-known species of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 612-629 [614].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Kei Is., Indonesia (as Ké Is. in original description)
  Comment: Swinhoe indicated in the original description that he described two specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [216] (referred to a type); 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. (interpret Evans' (1949) reference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xix 502 pp. 53 pls. [216]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York Peninsula, QLD; extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Kei Islands).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Closed forest, coastal, tropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults known in Australia only from tropical rainforests, recorded most months except November, March and June.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [142] (biology)

Kerr, J.F.R. 1966. New records of Lepidoptera in Australia. Journal of the Entomological Society of Queensland 5: 72-73 [72]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [155]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. New genera of Australian Hesperiidae and a new subspecies. The Australian Zoologist 7(3): 198-201 [200] (placed in genus Toxidia, synonymised inornatus and maykora)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	05-Jan-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		07-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)