Subspecies Rapala varuna simsoni (Miskin, 1874)

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• Deudorix simsoni Miskin, W.H. 1874. New Lycaenidae from Queensland. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 11: 165 [165].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM T12396 1♀, Brisbane and Port Denison (Bowen), QLD (Miskin listed Brisbane and Port Denison, QLD, in original description); QM T12395 1♂; QM T12397 1♂; QM T12398 1♀; QM T12399 1♂
  Comment: Miskin in the original description mentioned both sexes and gave several localities.

  Type locality references:

  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 [523] (gave type information, including locality information on the labels of the syntypes).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

"Several observed" on Torres Strait islands.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

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. [522]

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. [387]

Lambkin, T.A. 1983. The early stages of Rapala varuna simsoni (Miskin) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from south-eastern Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 10: 56-58 [56] (biology)

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 [266]

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] [133]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Sep-2017	LYCAENIDAE	18-Aug-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
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)