Subspecies Vagrans egista propinqua (Miskin, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Atella propinqua Miskin, W.H. 1884. Descriptions of new Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 32(1): 93-96 [94].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM T 12364 1♂, Rockingham Bay, QLD (designated in original description; the syntype is labelled Cardwell which is on Rockingham Bay); QM T 12365 1♀ (this specimen was labelled type by Waterhouse & Wild in 1910), Cardwell, QLD
  Comment: Miskin in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Hancock, D.L. 1995. The butterfly types of W. H. Miskin in the Queensland Museum (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 519–528 [521] (listed two syntypes currently present and gave label data).
• Issoria egista offaka Fruhstorfer, H. 1904. Neue Rhopaloceren aus dem Malayischen Archipel. Entomologiske Meddelelser 2(4): 291-332 [314].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, unknown (Fruhstorfer gave Waigou, West Irian and Papua New Guinea in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description mentioned 10 males.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [629]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

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. [407] (biology)

Waterhouse, G.A. 1903. Catalogue of the Rhopalocera of Australia. Memoirs of the NSW Naturalists' Club No. 1. iii 49 pp. [11] (Atella propinqua Butler, 1884 listed as a synonym of Atella egista (Cramer, [1780]))

Waterhouse, G.A. 1932. What Butterfly is That? A Guide to the Butterflies of Australia. Illustrated by Neville Cayley. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 291 pp. 34 pls. [Date published 15/Dec/1932] [92] (as Issoria egista propinqua Miskin, 1884, 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] [64] (as Issoria egista propinqua Miskin, 1884; description, distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2013		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED