Species Euploea sylvester (Fabricius, 1793)

Museums

Regional Maps

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• 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] [26]
• Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [311]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Maluku
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea
• Vanuatu

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Ficus racemosa L. [MORACEAE]; Marsdenia geminata (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. [APOCYNACEAE]; Marsdenia pleiadenia (F.Muell.) P.I.Forst. [APOCYNACEAE]).

 

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. [213] (taxonomy, biology)

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

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. [562]

Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [507]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
14-Apr-2025	PAPILIONOIDEA	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
07-Mar-2024	PAPILIONOIDEA	06-Jan-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Feb-2023	PAPILIONOIDEA	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby (ANU)
13-May-2022	PAPILIONOIDEA	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
26-Feb-2021	PAPILIONOIDEA	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
04-Jun-2020	PAPILIONOIDEA	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED	Dr Michael Braby
13-Dec-2017	Danaini	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
04-Jun-2020	NYMPHALIDAE Rafinesque, 1815	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
06-Sep-2017	PAPILIONOIDEA	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
29-Nov-2016	Euploea Fabricius, 1807	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
01-Feb-2016	Danaini	14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
05-Mar-2013		14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012		14-Apr-2025	MODIFIED
		05-Apr-2011	MOVED