Species Timoconia peron (Latreille, 1824)
Dingy Skipper, Large Dingy Skipper
- Hesperia peron Latreille, P.A. 1824. Zoologie. Vol. 9 Pt 2 pp. 706–707 711–793 in Latreille, P.A. & Godart, J.B. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. [dated 1819] [722, 763] [Cowan, C.F. 1970. Annotationes Rhopalocerologicae 1970. Berkhamsted, Great Britain : Clunbury Press 70 pp. [23] commented on the spelling of the specific name formed from a modern personal name in the case of this species (Art. 31, ICZN 1985)].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP ♂, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande in original description)
Comment: Latreille in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.Subsequent designation references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115] (referred to a holotype); 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 Waterhouse's (1937) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115] (suggested Sydney as the type locality on the ground that little of Australia was settled at the date of description except the Sydney area). - Telesto kochii Felder, C. 1862. Verzeichniss der von den Naturforschern der k.k. Fregatte Novara gesammelten Macrolepidopteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 473-496 [491].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Sydney, NSW (Felder listed the species as originating at Sidney [sic])
Comment: Felder 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 [115] (stated that the type could not be found in the Rothschild collection at Tring where most of the Felder collection went); Seitz, A. 1927. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Hesperiidae]. pp. 1027–1107 pls 163–175 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] [1057] (referred to cotypes which may not have any status). - Hesperilla doclea Hewitson, W.C. 1868. Descriptions of One Hundred New Species of Hesperidae. London : John van Voorst Vol. 2 25-56 pp. [39].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD (designated in original description)
Comment: Hewitson in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Kirby, W.F. 1879. Catalogue of the Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera Formed by the Late William Chapman Hewitson, of Oatlands, Walton-on-Thames; and Bequeathed by Him to the British Museum. London : John van Voorst iv 246 pp. [235] (listed six specimens in the Hewitson collection but some were misidentified by Hewitson).Subsequent designation references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115] (referred to a holotype); 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. [214] (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 Waterhouse's (1939) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)). - Telesto arsenia Plötz, C. 1884. Die Hesperiinen-Gattung Telesto Boisd., und ihre Arten. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 45(10–12): 376-384 [384].
Type data:
Holotype ZMHB 5881 ♀ (Plötz in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described nor did he designate a type, but a holotype is suspected on the basis of the single accession number given by Plötz; the figure number given by Plötz referred to his unpublished drawings), Australia (as Neu-Holland in original description and on label of holotype)
Comment: (Plötz in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described nor did he designate a type, but a holotype is suspected on the basis of the single accession number given by Plötz; the figure number given by Plötz referred to his unpublished drawings). - Timoconia thielei Strand, E. 1909. Zwei neue afrikanische Hesperiiden. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 3(33): 176-177 [176].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMHB ♂ (Strand in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, but the original paper strongly suggested a single specimen although not conclusively), Australia (Strand in the original paper incorrectly stated that it came from Delagoa Bay, Africa)
Comment: Strand in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, but the original paper strongly suggested a single specimen although not conclusively.Subsequent designation references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115] (referred to a holotype); 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. [214] (referred to a type); Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [444] (referred to a holotype); 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 Waterhouse's (1937) reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Australian Hesperiidae. VII. Notes on the types and type localities. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(3–4): 107-125 [115] (stated that the original locality was incorrect, and in treating the name as a synonym of Toxidia peron Latreille, implied that it came from Australia); 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. [214] (placed the original locality in quotation marks, indicating that he did not accept the locality); Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [444] (stated that the label data on the holotype from ZMHU gave the type locality as Delagoa Bay, Africa, but the species was Hesperia peroni Latreille).
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. [214]
- Toussaint, E.F.A., Braby, M.F., Müller, C.J., Petrie, E.A. and Kawahara, A.Y. 2022. Molecular phylogeny, systematics and generic classification of the butterfly subfamily Trapezitinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Hesperiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 1407–1421 [Date published August 2022]
Generic Combinations
- Timoconia peron (Latreille, 1824).
- Toxidia peron (Latreille, 1824).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
From Cape York Peninsula, QLD, to Snake Is. near Welshpool, VIC.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze [POACEAE] Buffalo Grass; Gahnia sieberiana Kunth [CYPERACEAE]; Lomandra sp. [XANTHORRHOEACEAE]; Dianella caerulea Sieber ex Sims [LILIACEAE]; Dianella sp. [LILIACEAE]).
General References
Atkins, A.F. 1988. A note on the mating behaviour of Australian trapezitine skipper butterflies. Victorian Entomologist 18(1): 7 [7]
Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [164] (incorrect subsequent spelling as perronii)
Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1869. Neue Schmetterlinge aus dem Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 30(1–3): 66-80 pls 1-4 [80]
Kirby, W.F. 1871. A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera. London : John van Voorst viii 690 pp. [622] (incorrect subsequent spelling as peronii)
Lower, O.B. 1911. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 112-172 [129] (incorrect subsequent spelling as perroni)
Mabille, P. 1904. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Fam. Hesperidae. Genera Insectorum 17: 1-210, pls 1-4 (1903-1904) [93] (incorrect subsequent spelling as ferronii; <0002> [137] (biology)
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] [190] (incorrect subsequent spelling as peroni, description)
Westwood, J.O. in Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. 1852. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus. Illustrated by W.C. Hewitson. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 pp. 467-534 pls 78-80. [issued 1852, dated 1850-1852; publication dates] [527]
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07-Mar-2024 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 04-Feb-2023 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 22-Dec-2023 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby (ANU) |
| 13-May-2022 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 26-Feb-2021 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 04-Jun-2020 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 06-Sep-2017 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 06-Sep-2017 | HESPERIIDAE | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | Lyn Randall |
| 05-Mar-2013 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Mar-2013 | 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Mar-2024 | MODIFIED |