1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

1-2: Australia, Queensland, Daintree National Park, im Regenwald von Cape Tribulation, ca. 5 m, 5. September 2019 (det. & phot.: Volker Achterberg), conf. Egbert FriedrichForum

2. Diagnosis

2.1. Original description

1: Fabricius (1775: 488) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

2.2. Original description of ssp. remulia, figures indicated therein, and text to the figures

1-4: Cramer & Stoll ([1780]): 176; Cramer [1779]: pl. CCXXXVII figs. F-G, 70) [from copyright-free scans at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Papilio terminus Fabricius, 1775 [Originalkombination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Mycalesis asophis var. pallens Oberthür, 1880 [Synonym nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis tira Gaede, 1931 [Synonym nach funet.fi]

3.3. Subspecies

• Mycalesis terminus remulia (Cramer & Stoll, [1780]) [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus flagrans Butler, 1876 [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus matho Grose-Smith, 1894 [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus wakolo Fruhstorfer, 1908 [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus pseudasophis Fruhstorfer, 1908 [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus anteros Fruhstorfer, 1908 [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus ternatensis Fruhstorfer, 1908 [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus atropates Fruhstorfer, 1908 [Unterart nach funet.fi]
• Mycalesis terminus terminulus Fruhstorfer, 1908 [Unterart nach funet.fi]

3.4. Faunistics

According to [Global Biodiversity Information Facility], the species orrurs in Australia, Indonesia, Papua-Neuguinea, India, the Salomon Islands, and questionable in the USA.

Locus typicus according to the original description: Nova Hollandia [Australia].

(Autor: Michel Kettner)

3.5. Publication year of the original description

Hemming (1958: 42) provides the following publication years and authorships for volume 3 of “De uitlandsche kapellen”:

• 1-104, pl. CXCIII-CCLII Cramer [1779]
• 105-176, pl. CCLIII-CCLXXXVIII Cramer & Stoll [1780] (“Written by Cramer and published after his death by Caspar Stoll”)

(Author: Jürgen Rodeland)

3.6. Literature

• Original description of the subspecies Mycalesis terminus remulia: Cramer, P. & C. Stoll („1782“) [1779-1780]: De uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America 3: 1-176, pl. CXCIII-CCLXXXVIII. Amsteldam (S. J. Baalde), Utrecht (Barthelemy Wild).
• Original description: Fabricius, J. C. (1775): Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. 1-832 (Flensburg und Leipzig: Officina Libraria Kortii).
• Hemming, F. (1958): Opinion 516. — Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 19 (1): 1-44. London.

3.7. Information at other websites (external links)

• [BOLD]
• [Global Biodiversity Information Facility]
• [butterflyhouse]
• [Butterflies of Australia]