Genus Ypthima Hübner, 1818
- Ypthima Hübner, J. 1818. Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge. Augsburg : Hübner 32 pp. 40 pls. [17] [placed on Official List of generic names, ICZN Opinion 819].
Type species:
Ypthima huebneri Kirby, 1871 by designation under Plenary Powers, see Hemming, F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Suppl. 9: 1-509 [460] (discussed selection of a type species); International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1967. Opinion 819. Ypthima Hübner, 1818 (Insecta, Lepidoptera): designation of a type-species under the Plenary Powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 2(4): 210-211 [210]. - Xois Hewitson, W.C. 1865. A monograph of the genus Yphthima; with descriptions of two new genera of diurnal Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2(4): 281-293 pls 17-18 [282].
Type species:
Xois sesara Hewitson, 1865 by monotypy. - Kolasa Moore, F. 1893. Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera: family Nymphalidae, sub-families Satyrinae (continued), Elymniinae, Amathusiinae, Nymphalinae (Group Charaxina). London : Lovell Reeve & Co. Vol. 2(14) April 1893) pp. 33-64. [issued 1893, dated 1892] [57].
Type species:
Satyrus chenui Guérin-Méneville, 1843 by original designation. - Thymipa Moore, F. 1893. Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera: family Nymphalidae, sub-families Satyrinae (continued), Elymniinae, Amathusiinae, Nymphalinae (Group Charaxina). London : Lovell Reeve & Co. Vol. 2(14) April 1893) pp. 33-64. [issued 1893, dated 1892] [57] [name introduced in a key to genera on p. 57 and further described on p. 58].
Type species:
Papilio baldus Fabricius, 1775 by original designation. - Nadiria Moore, F. 1893. Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera: family Nymphalidae, sub-families Satyrinae (continued), Elymniinae, Amathusiinae, Nymphalinae (Group Charaxina). London : Lovell Reeve & Co. Vol. 2(14) April 1893) pp. 33-64. [issued 1893, dated 1892] [57] [name introduced in a key to genera on p. 57 and further described on p. 85].
Type species:
Ypthima bolanica Marshall, 1883 by original designation. - Pandima Moore, F. 1893. Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera: family Nymphalidae, sub-families Satyrinae (continued), Elymniinae, Amathusiinae, Nymphalinae (Group Charaxina). London : Lovell Reeve & Co. Vol. 2(14) April 1893) pp. 33-64. [issued 1893, dated 1892] [58] [name introduced in a key to genera on p. 58 and further described on p. 86].
Type species:
Satyrus nareda Kollar, 1844 by original designation. - Lohana Moore, F. 1893. Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera: family Nymphalidae, sub-families Satyrinae (continued), Elymniinae, Amathusiinae, Nymphalinae (Group Charaxina). London : Lovell Reeve & Co. Vol. 2(14) April 1893) pp. 33-64. [issued 1893, dated 1892] [58] [name introduced in a key to genera on p. 58 and further described on p. 92].
Type species:
Ypthima inica Hewitson, 1865 by original designation. - Dallacha Moore, F. 1893. Lepidoptera Indica. Rhopalocera: family Nymphalidae, sub-families Satyrinae (continued), Elymniinae, Amathusiinae, Nymphalinae (Group Charaxina). London : Lovell Reeve & Co. Vol. 2(14) April 1893) pp. 33-64. [issued 1893, dated 1892] [58] [name introduced in a key to genera on p. 58 and further described on p. 94].
Type species:
Ypthima hyagriva Moore, 1857 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Heppner, J.B. & Inoue, H. (eds) 1992. Lepidoptera of Taiwan. Checklist. Gainsville : Association for Tropical Lepidoptera Vol. 1(2) xlix 276 pp. [149]
- Edwards, E.D. 1996. Nymphalidae. pp. 243-248, 359-360 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [245]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Indonesia
- Irian Jaya
- Papua New Guinea
Oriental Region
Palaearctic Region
General References
Ackery, P.R. 1984. Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London, no. 11. Part 1 Systematics. pp. 9-21 in Vane-Wright, R.I. & Ackery, P.R. (eds). The Biology of Butterflies. London : Academic Press 429 pp. [16]
Ackery, P.R. 1988. Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 33: 95-203 [103] (bibliography)
Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [371] (as Xois Hewitson, 1865)
Hewitson, W.C. 1865. A monograph of the genus Yphthima; with descriptions of two new genera of diurnal Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2(4): 281-293 pls 17-18 [281] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Yphthima)
Holloway, J.D. 1974. The endemic Satyridae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of New Caledonia. Journal of Entomology B 43(1): 89-101 [96] (as Xois Hewitson, 1865)
Miller, L.D. 1968. The higher classification, phylogeny and zoogeography of the Satyridae (Lepidoptera). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 24: i-iii, 1-174 [81]
Shima, H. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Ypthima Hübner (Lepidoptera, Satyridae). Special Bulletin of Lepidopterological Society of Japan 6: 69-81 [69]
Shirôzu, T. & Shima H. 1979. On the natural groups and their phylogenetic relationships of the genus Ypthima Hübner mainly from Asia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae). Sieboldia 4(4): 231-295 [231]
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] [32] (description, distribution)
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