Subspecies Eurema drona australis (Wallace, 1867)
- Terias australis 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 [321].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD (designated in original description)
Comment: Wallace in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described; Yata, O. 1989. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part I. Phylogeny and zoogeography of the subgenus Terias Swainson and description of the subgenus Eurema Hübner. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 9: 1–103 pls 1–24 [77] (referred to syntypes of both sexes in the BMNH).Type locality references:
Yata, O. 1989. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part I. Phylogeny and zoogeography of the subgenus Terias Swainson and description of the subgenus Eurema Hübner. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 9: 1-103 pls 1-24.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
- Fiji
- New Caledonia
Ecological Descriptors
Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin [FABACEAE]; Chamaecrista sp. [FABACEAE]).
General References
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [272] (as Eurema brigitta australis (Wallace, 1867), biology)
Irungbam, M., Irungbam, J.S., Rindos, N., Maresova, J.P. & Fric, Z.F. 2023. Phylogeography of the small grass yellow Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) unveils the existence of distinct taxa within the Paleotropics. Austral Entomology 62: 410–417 [Date published 19 December 2023]
Jones, R.E. 1999. The Grass Yellows, Eurema Species (Pieridae). pp. 143-151 in Kitching, R.L., Scheermeyer, E., Jones, R.L. & Pierce, N.E. (eds). Biology of Australian Butterflies. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing xvi 395 pp. [143]
McCubbin, C. 1971. Australian Butterflies. Melbourne : Nelson xxxi 206 pp. [119] (biology)
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] [65] (as Terias libythea zoriade Felder, 1865, biology)
Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [122] (discussed the application of zoriade C. Felder & R. Felder and concluded that it should not be used for the Australian population)
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] [152] (as Terias libythea zoriade Felder, 1865, description, distribution)
Yata, O. 1989. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part I. Phylogeny and zoogeography of the subgenus Terias Swainson and description of the subgenus Eurema Hübner. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 9: 1-103 pls 1-24 [76] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)
Yata, O. 1989. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part I. Phylogeny and zoogeography of the subgenus Terias Swainson and description of the subgenus Eurema Hübner. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 9: 1-103 pls 1-24 [76] (as Eurema brigitta zoraide (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865), biology)
History of changes
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| 07-Mar-2024 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 02-Jan-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 04-Feb-2023 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 02-Jan-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby (ANU) |
| 13-May-2022 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 02-Jan-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
| 26-Feb-2021 | PAPILIONOIDEA | 02-Jan-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Michael Braby |
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