Species Elodina tongura Tindale, 1923

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• Elodina tongura Tindale, N.B. 1923. On Australian Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 47: 342-354 pls 28-30 [350].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I13778 ♂, Groote Eylandt, NT (given by De Baar and Hancock; Tindale originally gave Groote Eylandt, Winchilsea Is. and Woodah Is., NT).
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA I13777 1♂, unknown (locality not given by Tindale or De Baar & Hancock); SAMA 2♂; SAMA 10 sex not stated; AM KL14985 ♂
  Comment: Tindale in the original description designated a type male and a type female (actually also a male) which then became the syntypes and all other specimens mentioned by Tindale were excluded from the type series; Edwards, E.D., Newland, J. & Regan, L. 2001. Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 31.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. x 615 pp. (there is only one paralectotype, since other specimens, not designated as types by Tindale but considered paralectotypes by De Baar & Hancock, have no status).

  Secondary source:

   De Baar, M. & Hancock, D.L. 1993. The Australian species of Elodina C. & R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Australian Entomological Magazine 20(1): 25-43.

Introduction

De Baar (2004) published a revised checklist of all species assigned to Elodina; the taxon E. tongura Tindale, 1923, endemic to the Northern Territory was reinstated and regarded to be specifically distinct from, and sympatric with, E. walkeri Butler, 1898.

General References

De Baar, M. 2004. Notes on the status of some Elodina C. & R. Felder species (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Australian Entomologist 31: 37–42

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