Species Euploea climena (Stoll, 1782)

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Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Carpenter, G.D.H. 1953. The genus Euploea (Lep. Danaidae) in Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia and Australia. A zoo-geographical study. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 28(1): 1-184 pl. 1-9 [5]
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [308]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Ils), Papua New Guinea (Admiralty Ils, Bismarck Archipelago), Christmas Island (Indian Ocean).

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

Extra Ecological Information

Larval food plants not recorded.

 

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Euploea climena climena (Stoll, 1782)

Papilio climena Stoll, C. in Cramer, P. 1782. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title]. Vol. 4(32–34). Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild. pp. 165–252 pls 373–400 [issued 1782, dated 1775-1790] [207 pl. 389 figs E, F] [issued 1782, dated 1775–1790, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Opinion 516. Determination under the plenary powers of the relative precedence to be assigned to certain works on the Order Lepidoptera (Class Insecta) published in 1775 by Pieter Cramer, Michael Denis & Ignaz Schiffermüller, Johann Christian Fabricius, Johann Casper Fuessly, and S.A. von Rottemburg respectively. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19: 1–44 [43]].
Type data: type status and whereabouts unknown sex unknown*; Stoll in the original description did not indicate the number of specimens described.
Type locality: Ambon, Indonesia (designated in original description).

 

General References

Ackery, P.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1984. Milkweed Butterflies their Cladistics and Biology being an account of the natural history of the Danainae, a subfamily of the Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 425 pp. [231]

Morishita, K. 1981. Danainae. pp. 441-623 in Tsukada, E. (ed.). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. Tokyo : Palpac Co. Vol. 2 623 pp. [535]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [517]

 

History of changes

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