Suniana lascivia lasus Waterhouse, 1937

Dingy grass dart, Northern dingy dart

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1933 (Braby et al., 2018:31)

Rediscovered in: March 2009 (Braby et al., 2018:31,116)

 

Distribution & Habitat

Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia

 

Anatomy & Morphology

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Waterhouse, G. A. (1937). Australian Hesperiidae. VI. Descriptions of new subspecies. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 62(1): 32-34.

 

Other references:

Braby, M. F., Franklin, D. C., Bisa, D. E., Williams, M. R., Williams, A. A. E., Bishop, C. L. and Coppen, R. A. M. (2018). Atlas of Butterflies and Diurnal Moths in the Monsoon Tropics of Northern Australia. Acton, ACT: ANU Press. xxxii + 430 pp.

Bridges, C. A. (1994). Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois.

Common, I. F. B. and Waterhouse, G. A. (1981). Butterflies of Australia Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Australia. 2nd Revised Edition. 682 pp., 49 pls.

Evans, W. H. (1949). A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix + 502pp., 53 pls.

 

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