Amphrisius australis Swainson, 1851

Amphrisius australis Swainson, 1851 View in CoL

Type material. The type material of Amphrisius australis from the Richmond River, NSW has not been traced. Helena Scott illustrated both sexes (2 males, 1 female) in her painting of the species ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ) completed sometime in the late 1840s ( Ord, 1988; Braby & Olsen, 2011). Waterhouse (1937) indicated that A.W. Scott’s collection of butterflies, including types, was deposited in AMS, but there is no trace of type material of A. australis in the AMS (see also Peters, 1971). The specimens on which these illustrations were based, and which formed the subsequent description by Swainson (1851), represent the missing syntypes. However, since the original type specimens have been lost, and Swainson does not appear to have actually examined specimens, Scott’s painting constitutes an ‘iconotype’ ( Vane-Wright, 2010; Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 2021).