Subspecies Udara cardia tenella (Miskin, 1891)

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• Lycaena tenella Miskin, W.H. 1891. A synonymical catalogue of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera (Butterflies) of Australia with full bibliographical reference: including descriptions of some new species. Annals of the Queensland Museum 1: [i]-xx 1-[93] [i]-ix [63].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T12420 ♀, Cairns, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: Miskin in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.

  Secondary source:

   Braby, M. & Muller, C.J. 2013. Taxonomy of the genus Udara (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in New Caledonia and the Wet Tropics of Australia, with a review of butterfly endemism in these regions. Austral Entomology 2013: 1-10 [Date published 13 December 2013: printed in Austral Entomology 53(1): 89-98, February 2014] [92] (Udara cardia tenella (Miskin, 1891) syn. nov. and stat. nov.).

 

Generic Combinations

• Udara cardia tenella (Miskin, 1891).

 

Introduction

The species Udara tenella (Miskin, 1891) was synonymised and treated as a subspecies of Udara cardia (C. Felder, 1860) by Braby and Müller (2013). The subspecies is endemic to Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Between Mt Misery and the Atherton Tableland.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded.

 

General References

Braby, M. & Muller, C.J. 2013. Taxonomy of the genus Udara (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in New Caledonia and the Wet Tropics of Australia, with a review of butterfly endemism in these regions. Austral Entomology 2013: 1-10 [Date published 13 December 2013: printed in Austral Entomology 53(1): 89-98, February 2014] [92]

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [590]

Dunn, K.L. & Dunn, L.E. 1991. Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Family Lycaenidae. Melbourne : K. & L. Dunn Vol. 3 336-512 pp. [423]

Eliot, J.N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue Butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. London : British Museum 309 pp. [101]

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Notes on Australian Rhopalocera: Lycaenidae. Part III—Revisional. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28(1): 132-275, pls 1-3 [144]

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] [75]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	06-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
06-Sep-2017		16-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)