| Description |
1 online resource (412 pages) |
| Series |
Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series ; v. 6 |
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Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera Series
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1. The History of Australian Butterfly Research and Collecting; Introduction; History of Research and Collecting; Before European Colonisation, pre-1788; Early Colonial Years, 1788-1860; Establishment of Resident Lepidopterists, 1860-1900; The Waterhouse Era, 1900-1940; The 'Dark Ages', 1940-1950; The Amateur Renaissance, 1950-1980; Current Trends and the Future, 1980-; Acknowledgments; References; 2. The Higher Classification of the Butterflies; Introduction; The Ackery Schema; Common and Waterhouses' Usage; The Classification of the Nymphalidae |
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Some Other Views on Butterfly Higher ClassificationSubfamilies of the Lycaenidae; The Family Status of the Hesperiidae; The Hedyloidea; Concluding Remarks; References; Notes added in proof; 3. The Evolution and Characteristics of the Australian Butterfly Fauna; Introduction; The Australian Butterfly Fauna; Variation in Butterflies and its Taxonomic Interpretation; Individual Variation; Geographical Variation; Seasonal Variation; Sexual Variation and Mimicry; Two Case Studies; Diversification of Butterflies in Australia; Some Species Complexes and Problems in Taxonomy of Australian Butterflies |
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The FutureAcknowledgment; References; 4. The Biogeography of Australian Butterflies; Introduction; Biogeographic Processes -- A Conspectus; Tectonic Processes; Adaptive Radiation; Post-glacial Invasion; Human-assisted Movement; Habitat Distributions and Changes; A World of Butterflies: The Australian Fauna in Context; Some Patterns; Butterflies in Australia; The Pattern of Species Richness; The Butterfly Fauna; The Papilionoidea; Papilionidae; Pieridae; Nymphalidae; Lycaenidae; The Hesperioidea; The Coeliadinae; The Pyrginae; The Trapezitinae; The Hesperiinae |
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Future Directions in Butterfly GeographyPhylogenies; Local Surveys and Investigations; Endangered, Threatened and Rare Species; Acknowledgments; References; 5. The Skippers, Trapezites (Hesperiidae); Introduction; Historical Summary of the Genus Trapezites; Definition; Morphology; Biology; Distribution; Key to the Described Species of Trapezites (Males); The Species; Trapezites Hübner, 1819; Trapezites phigalia phigalia (Hewitson, 1868); Trapezites phigalia philus Waterhouse, 1937; Trapezites phigalioides Waterhouse, 1903; Trapezites iacchoides Waterhouse, 1903 |
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Trapezites maheta (Hewitson, 1877)Trapezites praxedes (Plotz, 1884); Trapezites symmomus symmomus Hübner, 1823; Trapezites symmomus soma Waterhouse, 1933; Trapezites symmomus sombra Waterhouse, 1933; Trapezites taori Atkins, 1977; Trapezites heteromacula Meyrick and Lower, 1902; Trapezites eliena (Hewitson, 1868); Trapezites macqueeni Kerr and Sands, 1970; Trapezites lutea lutea (Tepper, 1882); Trapezites lutea glaucus Waterhouse and Lyell, 1914; Trapezites lutea leucon Waterhouse, 1938; Trapezites petalia (Hewitson, 1868); Trapezites sciron sciron Waterhouse and Lyell, 1914 |
| Summary |
Brings together exciting accounts of life history strategies of a range of species, as well as background information on general butterfly behaviour, taxonomy and evolutionary aspects |
| Notes |
Trapezites sciron eremicola Burns, 1948 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Butterflies -- Australia
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Butterflies
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scheermeyer, E
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Jones, RE
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Pierce, NE
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| ISBN |
9780643105140 |
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064310514X |
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9780643050273 |
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0643050272 |
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