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Notes on Some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera~Rhopalocera rAPERS AND PnOCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY of TASMANIA, VOLUME 96 NOTES ON SOME TASMANIAN AND AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA~RHOPALOCERA By L. E. COUCHMAN. (With lour text fig"'..lres and one rdate) ABSTRACT the males and communicated this I find this confirmed in T. method of illustrat;ed "Butterflies of of Pelopidas, lUJlJ~ll"U in 1960, where similar Rothschild, for the Pormosan the name agna and Oreisplanus Jnunionga from north-west Tasmania, this is the first record The males of our two Australian species may be of the genus in this State and of the species below separated as shown in the figures by checking the a high altitude in the Australian Alps. position of the male sex brand in relation to the origin of vein 2 and the position of the cell spots. Candalides simplexa Tepper is shown to be the A line drawn ,through the cell spots will clearly pass name for the collective species known as hyacin­ beyond the margin of vein 2 and cross vein 1 b thina Semper, the latter is an invalId homonym, basad of the end of the sex brand in agna dingo having formerly been used for another species of male, while a similar line through the cell spots in the same genus. Meyrick's name cyan"ites is revived lyelli lyelli wm pass very close to or over the origin for the West Australian and Scott's cassythae of vein 2 and clearly pass through the sex brand adopted to replace Semper. The before crOSSing vein lb. species oJ Everes which has at various times been known in Australia as E. parrhasills or E. argiades In the females, except for the absence of the sex is placed as a subspecies of Zactlltnus Godart and brand, 'a line similarly drawn will pass the origin named E. lacturnlls australis. Ziz1l1a hylax Fabri­ of vein 2 as in the males, that is, the line in agna cius is adopted as the species name of the butterfly dingo will on the basal side of the spot in for which Trimen was formerly used, our area in l. lyelli female the extended species now Ziznla hylax attenuata Lucas. lIne clearly meet the spot in area 1 b. T hope the publication of these figures will others to The possible localities from which the original distinguish between these two very species, specimens of PseudalInenus chloTinda Blanchard so long confused. were obtained is discussed and historical and mate­ rial evidence brought forward in support of my The two species seem to overlap throughout their claim thai; Richmond, near Hobart, must be range in Australia, I have noted specimens of both regarded as the source of Blanchard's specimens, from Darwin, Kuranda, and Cairns south to and it is so designated as the type locaIity, and a Mackay, but I believe one or both may range at neotype male and female selected. least occasionally to Brisbane. The hitherto unknown female of Oreixenica paludosa theddora Couchman from the plateau OREISPLANUS MUNIONGA LARANA subsp.nov. area of Mt. Buffalo is described. The limits of the subspecies of H eteronyrnpiLa cordace Geyer in Nominotypical rnnnionga Olliff 1890 (Proc. linn. Tasmania are more clearly defined as the result of Soc. N.S.W. (889) (2) 4 (3) : 623-624) was des­ further intensive collecting during the past seven cribed from" Moonbar (3-3550 feet) , Mt. Kosciusko years. (5000 feet)" the former being fixed as the type locality by Waterhouse and Lyell (914). It has H:!<~SI'ERnD /\E. subsequently been taken at several places in the Viotorian Alps, especially on Mt. Hotham, but PELOPIDAS AGNA DINGO Evans 1949 and always above foul." thousand feet. Its occurrence PELOPIDAS LYELL! LYELLI (Rothschild) 1915. at sea level, in fact almost on the shore-line in 'When in 1951 (Trans. Roy, Soc. South Australia Tasmania was totally unexpected, since the species 74 (D : Hi-I?) I discussed the confused history of does not occur at low altitudes even in Victoria. these ',lpecies formerly known in Australia as When compared with typical munionga the difl'er­ "Parnara (or Baoris) mathias" I bad seen only a ences in the Tasmanian race are easIly recognised. few specimens from Darwin and Kuranda. Evans' Male Upperside; ForeWing, discal spots between (1949) keys for their separation proved dimcult to veins 1 and 2 narrow, connecting with two spots follow, and the earlier contradictions regarding the .each 1 mm. square in areas 2 and 3, three subapical published figures have continued to confuse many spots and scattered submarginal scaling from costa correspondents. Having worked out a method for to vein 4, a cell spot extending narrowly towards 73 74 NOTES ON SOME TASMANIAN AND AUSTRALIAN DEPJl)OPl'ERA·RllOPALOCERA female labelled as holotype male, Types in my own collection. Nine males and one female were taken in a dry paddock on the edge of a swampy rivulet containing a few clumps of Carex, wbich has been noted as the food-plant in Viotoria. Obviously ssp. larana is extremely local since it has remained undis­ covered till now, although occurring in a paddock in a long settled grazing district. No other speci­ mens were seen outside the one narrow area in a single field clos.e to the shore-line, though I should expect it to occur in similar spots bordering running water between Marrawah and Cape Grim. South of Marrawah the country quickly changes to heathland extending to the mouth of the Arthur River, so that its possible habitable area is extremely limited. This addition to our Tasmanian lists should be placed between the genera Anisynta and H esperilla. LYCAENIDAE. CANDALIDES SIMPLEXA SIMPLEXA (Tepper) 1882 n. Synon. and comb. Cupido simp/exa Tepper 1882 Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia (1880-1) 4: 30.2, f.l0. "Monarto Co. Sturt". Holochila erinus Fab. Miskin 1891 Annals Queensland Mus. 1: 64-65 (part); Anderson and Spry 1894 Victorian Butt. (2) : 91 cpt.). (nec Fab. 1775) . HCierCrlymp!w cord(1ce races in Tasmania Candalides hyacinth ina Semper, Waterhouse 1903 Proc. linn. Soc. N.8.W. 28 (1) : 185 (pt); id 1903 base and hindmargin almost sagittate and a few Memoirs N.S.W. Naturalists Club 1 : 23 (pt). Rain­ scattered scales on hindmargin balf way from base, bow 1907 Guide.. study of Aust. Butt: 127-129 (pt). cream. (nec C. Felder 1862). Hindwing cell band larger, 3 mm. by 1 mm., in This is the earlies,t valid name for the collective area 5 clearly extended outwards towards termen. species hitherto erroneously known as hyacinthina Semper 1878 (nec C. Felder 1862). Subspecies Cilia of fore and hindwings broad, light cream simp/exa ranges from north-western Victoria chequered dark brown at veins 2 to 7. through South Australia. Underside; forewing discal spots in areas 2 and 3 recta.ngular, of equa.J size, the spot in area, I extend­ CANDALIDES SIMPLEXA CY ANITES (Meyrick) ing upwards towards spots in 2 and 3, the apical 1888. n. comb. light cream area containing submarginal black streaks and marginal blaei[ spots which are dis­ Polyommatus cyanites Meyrick 1888 Proc. linn. tinctly smaller and narrower. Hindwing ground Soc .. N.8.W. (2) 2 (4) : 828 "Geraldton, West Aus­ colour light cream, the markings narrower and sub­ tralIa ". Holochila cyanites Miskin 1891 Ann. margina.J spots smaller tban in ssp. munionga. Queensland Mus. 1 : 64; Candalides cyanites Water­ house 1903 Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. 28 (1) : 186. Forewing length 11.5 mm., eight, other males vary from 11 mm. (1 specimen); 11.5 (4 specimens); to This is the subspecies from West Australia dis­ tinguished by the broader black borders, the clearer 12 mm. (3 specimens). more brilliant blue shading of the discal areas. and Female. Upperside; forewing discal spots as in the darker undersides of fore and hindwing in both male, that in area 1 extending upwards towards sexes. those in area 2 and 3, cdl spot clearly sagittate, and a light scaling in the post-discal areas, cream. CANDALIDES SIMPLEXA JOE'SPHINA Harris Hindwing central band 4 mm. by 2 mm., larger 1952. n. comb. than in ssp. munionga female, extended towards termen in area 5 and with streaks along veins 2, 3 Candalides hyacinth ina Josephina Harris 1952 and 4 towards termen, orange. Cilia of fore and North Queensland Naturalist 20 (103) : 33-34. text. hindwings broad, as in male. figs. "Stawell, Victoria". Underside cell spot extended along vein to base, A population intermediate between s. simplexa otherwise as in the typical subspecies. and s. cassythae from a restricted area, which is very doubtfully of subspecific standing. Forewing length 15 mm. Specimens from Kiata, eighty miles north-west of Holotype male labelled Marrawah, Tas. Sea­ Stawell are undoubted s. simplexa, while those from level. 26-Jan.-1961. L. E. Couchman. Allotype Gisborne one hundred miles east are of the eastern L. E. COUCHMAN 75 fig. II Pe/opJd(Js agno dingo Fig. I Pelopidos I. lye IIi subspecies s. cassythae. The material on which the by ,the earliest name, which is sirnplexa Tepper name was based was noted by the author as so 1882. Fortunately Scott's name cassythae is avail­ variable as to suggest a hybrid population in a able for the subspecies hitherto ,erroneously known fringe area where two strong 'Subspecies meet. as hyacinthina Semper. Scott's specimens came from Ash Island, in the Hunter River near New­ castle, which may be accepted as the type locality. CANDALIDES SIMPLEXA CASSYTHAE (Scott) The same form occurs throughout eastern Aus­ 1890. n. synan. tralia from central Victoria through coastal New South Wales to southern Queensland. 'The male Polycllma cassythae Scott 1890 Australian Lepi­ above is brown tinged with purple, the termen of doptera, and their Transformations 2 (1) : pI.
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