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The Swallowtail Moths (URANIIDAE, Uraniinae) of Papua Indonesiaby Siep and Jannie Sinnema
Lyssa toxopeusi (Van Regteren Altena, 1953)
Distribution
STATUS: A common species. It is easily distinguished from the similar Lyssa macleayi by the broad dark margin along the white transverse band on the underside of the hindwing and the fainted, slightly branched off white transverse band in the tornus of the forewing. In Lyssa macleayi the transverse is running straight to the tornus and is not branched off, the transverse on the underside of the hindwing not broadly margined by black.
PAPUA LOCALITIES: Mioswaar Island; Roon Island; New Guinea: Abmisibil, Ampas, Bagia, Depapre, Fakfak, Ifar, Jayapura, Kouh, Kwerba, Noordwijk, Prafi (Manokwari), Rasiei, Senopi, Sentani, Sinimburu, Sorong, Top Camp, Waena (Camp Walker), Walmak, Werba (Fakfak), Windesi, Yoling, Yuruf. Details in gazetteer.
EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.
DATA SOURCES: KSP, RMNH, WAU, ZMAN.
Literature
Regteren Altena, C.O. van, 1953. A revision of the genus Nyctalemon Dalman (Lepidoptera, Uraniidae) with notes on the biology, distribution, and evolution of its species. Zoölogische Verhandelingen, Leiden 19: 1-57.
Seitz, A, 1934. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10: Spinner und Schwarmer des Indo-Australischen Gebiets, Uraniidae: 93-96. A. Kernen, Stuttgart.
