Subspecies Zizula hylax attenuata (Lucas, 1890)
Tiny Grass-blue
- Lycaena attenuata Lucas, T.P. 1890. On Queensland and other Australian macro-lepidoptera, with localities, and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(4): 1065-1099 [1066].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ ♀, mountains near coast in S.E. Queensland (designated in original description)
Comment: Lucas in the original description mentioned both sexes but did not mention a type.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore.
General References
Braby, M.F. & Woodger, T.A. 1994. The life history of Zizula hylax attenuata (T.P. Lucas) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 21: 39-42 [39] (biology)
Couchman, L.E. 1962. Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 96: 73-81 pl. 1 [76]
History of changes
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