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Subspecies Delias mysis aestiva Butler, 1897

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Subspecies Delias mysis aestiva Butler, 1897

  • Delias aestiva Butler, A.G. 1897. Revision of the Pierine butterflies of the genus Delias. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 143-167 [159] [type font used in the original publication did not distinguish between the diphthongs ae and oe, e.g. see Delias hae[oe]morrhoe[ae]a on p. 145; subsequent authors have interpreted the original spelling as either oestiva or aestiva; the first subsequent author was Fruhstorfer (1910) in Macrolepidoptera of the World, where aestiva is used; the next was Waterhouse & Lyell (1914), where oestiva was used].
    Type data:
     Lectotype BMNH ♂, Port Darwin, NT (as Port Darwin and Port Essington in original description).
    Paralectotype(s) BMNH 4♂
    Comment: Butler in the original description indicated that he had both sexes.
    Type locality references:
    Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261-656. [Date published 23/January/1937] [554] (recorded that the 'holotype' came from Port Darwin).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal

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 [283] (as Delias mysis aestiva description, distribution)

Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Pieridae]. 119-190 pls 51-73 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [dated 1927] [126] (as Delias mysis aestiva)

Talbot, G. 1937. A Monograph of the Pierine Genus Delias. Pt 6. London : British Museum pp. 261-656. [Date published 23/January/1937] [554] (as Delias mysis oestiva, 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] [49] (as Delias mysis oestiva, description, distribution)

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] [140] (as Delias mysis oestiva, description, distribution)