| Rare Skipper TRAPEZITINAE, HESPERIIDAE, HESPERIOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
drawing by Johann Tepper,
The Papilionidae of South Australia,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 4 (1882), Plate II, fig. 4,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library,
digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.
Little is known about this species, except that Tepper originally described it from a single specimen caught in 1882 in
It has been suggested that the specimen is actually Taractrocera flavovittata, but that has been disputed, and is now thought to be a moth, Incertae Sedis. It is likely now to be extinct.
Further reading :
Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper,
The Papilionidae of South Australia,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 4 (1882), p. 32, and also
Plate 2, fig. 4.
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(written 9 November 2001, updated 19 December 2023)