Subspecies Zizina otis labradus (Godart, [1824])
Common Grass-blue, Grass Blue
- Polyommatus labradus Godart, J.B. 1824. Zoologie. Vol. 9 Pt 2 pp. 329–706 708–711 794–828 in Latreille, P.A. & Godart, J.B. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Paris. [publication date: Cowan, C.F. 1968. [publication dates] Enc. Méth. 9. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 4(7): 307–311, 390, Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1906. On the dates of publication of the natural history portions of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 17: 577–582, Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1899. On the dates of the Encyclopédie Méthodique: additional note. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899(3): 595] [680].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (Godart in the original description referred to a single male), neighbourhood of Port Jackson, NSW (as Nouvelle-Hollande, environs de Port Jackson in original description)
Comment: Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [465] (referred to a holotype). - Lycaena novahollandiae 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 [490].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂, Sydney, NSW (Felder listed species under 'Sidney' in original publication)
Comment: Felder in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described and did not mention a type; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 92 pp. [72] (type could not be found in the Tring Museum where Felder's collection of species from the Novara voyage was then housed). - Lycaena communis 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 [72].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MGH, Rockhampton, QLD and Vanua Lava (as Vanua Valava), Vanuatu (in original description)
Comment: Herrich-Schäffer in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described, but gave two localities; originally described from the Museum Godeffroy; Waterhouse, G.A. 1936. [unpublished personal manuscript of observations made at the BMNH (Lycaenidae)]. Photocopy located at ANIC, Canberra, ACT. 92 pp. [70] (listed specimens in the BMNH which had been in the Museum Godeffroy but none were marked as types). - Lycaena phoebe Murray, R.P. 1873. Descriptions of new species of exotic Rhopalocera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 10: 107-108 [107, 108].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, South Australia and Brisbane, QLD (designated in original description)
Comment: Murray in the original description mentioned several localities and both sexes but no type, he mentioned specimens in the BMNH but these may have come from localities other than those Murray listed which may only have been the localities for his own specimens. - Cupido delicata Tepper, J.G.O. 1882. The Papilionidae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 4: 25-36 pls 2, 3 [30].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ ♀, Nuriootpa, SA (designated in original description)
Comment: Tepper in the original description implied in his comment on the wingspan that he had both sexes. - Lycaena pervulgatus Guest, E. 1882. List of diurnal Lepidoptera about Balhannah, Co. Adelaide, with descriptions of new or little-known species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 5: 34-37 [36].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ ♀, Balhannah Co., SA (designated in original description)
Comment: Guest in the original description referred to both sexes but did not mention a type.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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 [62]
- 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 [213]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Extralimital distribution—New Zealand.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
- Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
- New Zealand
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
Couchman, L.E. 1956. A catalogue of the Tasmanian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 1-33 [12]
History of changes
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