Subspecies Trapezites luteus leucon Waterhouse, 1938

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trapezites lutea leucon Waterhouse, G.A. 1938. Australian Hesperiidae. VIII. Descriptions of new forms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 451-452 [451].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KL10485 ♂ (Waterhouse designated a holotype), Milmerran, QLD (designated in original description).
  Paratype(s) AM KL10486 1♀, Milmerran, QLD; AM KL10483 1♂, Milmerran, QLD; AM KL10487 1♂ 2♀, Milmerran, QLD; AM KL10488 1♂, Milmerran, QLD
  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. [10] (type information).

Introduction

Atkins (1999) revised the lower taxonomy and distribution of Trapezites luteus (Tepper, 1882) and recognised three subspecies. The nominate subspecies Trapezites luteus luteus (Tepper, 1882) was considered to have a much more restricted geographical range than previously envisaged, occurring only in the semi-arid woodlands and mallee scrub of South Australia, from the Waikeri district and Lower Murray Valley through the Mt Lofty Ranges and Peterborough to Eyre Peninsula (compare maps in Common & Waterhouse 1981; Braby 2000). Atkins (1999) postulated that the two eastern subspecies, T. luteus glaucus Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914, from Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria and T. luteus leucon Waterhouse, 1938, from Tasmania, may comprise a separate species, T. glaucus, and drew attention to differences in male and female genitalia, wing shape, size, underside ground colour, and wing pattern. See Braby (2010) for further details.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Lomandra multiflora (R.Br.) Britten [XANTHORRHOEACEAE] Many-flowered Mat Rush; Lomandra filiformis (Thunb.) Britten [XANTHORRHOEACEAE] Wattle Mat-rush; Lomandra confertifolia (F.M.Bailey) Fahn [XANTHORRHOEACEAE]; Lomandra densiflora J.M.Black [XANTHORRHOEACEAE]; Lomandra longifolia Labill. [XANTHORRHOEACEAE]).

General References

Atkins, A.F. 1999. The Skippers, Trapezites (Hesperiidae). pp. 75-104 in Kitching, R.L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R.L. & Pierce, N.E. (eds). Biology of Australian Butterflies. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xvi 395 pp.

Braby, M.F. 2000. The Butterflies of Australia, their identification, biology and distribution. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing xx 976 pp. (name as junior synonym of Trapezites luteus luteus)

Braby, M.F. 2010. The merging of taxonomy and conservation biology: a synthesis of Australian butterfly systematics (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 2707: 1-76 [Date published 3 Dec 2010]

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