Subspecies Eurema puella virgo (Wallace, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terias virgo Wallace, A.R. 1867. On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4(3): 301-406 pls 6-9 [328].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, Aru Ils, Indonesia (indicated in original description)
  Comment: Wallace in the original description mentioned both sexes; types originally in Wallace collection; Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 11: 1–77 pls 1–30 [33] (could not locate types).

  Type locality references:

  Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11: 1-77 pls 1-30.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands).

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands

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. [272] (as Eurema candida virgo Wallace, 1867, biology, noted that some authors refer to the subspecies as papuana Butler, 1898)

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] [63]

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] [153] (as Terias candida virgo Wallace, 1867, description, distribution, considers the Australian and the Aru Ils specimens are the same subspecies)

Wood, G.A. 1992. The life history of Eurema candida virgo (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Coliadinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 19: 115-116 [115] (biology)

Yata, O. 1985. Part 1 : Pieridae. pp. 206-438 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. II. Japan : Plapac 1-623 pls 1-162. [243] (as Eurema candida papuana (Butler, 1898), description, distribution map, considered that the Australian specimens belong to the subspecies papuana Butler, 1898 rather than to the subspecies virgo Wallace, 1867)

Yata, O. 1992. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part III. Description of the sari group (part). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11: 1-77 pls 1-30 [33] (taxonomy, description)

 

History of changes

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