Subspecies Trapezites sciron eremicola Burns, 1948
- Trapezites sciron eremicola Burns, A.N. 1948. New geographical races of Australian butterflies. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 15: 86-102 pls 3-8 figs 1-5 [issued 1948, dated 1947] [91 pl. 5 figs 3-6].
Type data:
Paratype(s) NMV ?♂;
Syntype(s) NMV T.14455 1♂, Little Desert, VIC; NMV T.3509-T.3510 2 sex unknown, Little Desert, VIC (designated in original description); NMV T.14454 1♀, Little Desert, VIC
Comment: Burns in the original description referred to male and female types, these are syntypes and the other specimens described by Burns in the original description were excluded from the type series; 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. (the NMV web site listed two paratypes and two syntypes which is not a possible situation; determining which are the real syntypes will need further study but the Type numbers will provide a clue).
Distribution
States
South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Big Desert, Little Desert National Park and Wyperfeld National Park, VIC, Ngarkat Conservation Park and Hincks Conservation Park, SA.
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
SA, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV)
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. [117] (biology)
Fisher, R.H. 1984. Life history of the sciron skipper Trapezites sciron eremicola Burns (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108(2): 131-132 [131]
McCubbin, C. 1971. Australian Butterflies. Melbourne : Nelson xxxi 206 pp. [159] (biology)
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |