Species Thallarcha phalarota Meyrick, 1886

Thallarcha phalarota Meyrick, 1886, male

© Copyright David Britton, Australian Museum

Thallarcha phalarota Meyrick, 1886, female

© Copyright David Britton, Australian Museum

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• Thallarcha phalarota Meyrick, E. 1886. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 1(3): 687-802 [736].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, New South Wales.
• Thallarcha phaedropa Meyrick, E. 1886. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 1(3): 687-802 [737].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Sydney, New South Wales.
• Thallarcha aurantiacea Lucas, T.P. 1890. On Queensland and other Australian macro-lepidoptera, with localities, and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(4): 1065-1099 [1080].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ (Specimen labelled as type in SAMA is badly damaged, but is associated with other specimens of Thallarcha phalarota from Lucas collection, and it is assumed that aurantiacea is a synonym of T, phalarota), Australia.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Arctiidae. pp.278-286 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [280] (Thallarcha phalarota Meyrick, 1886 and T. phaedropa Meyrick, 1886 were published simultaneously. Priority was given to T. phalarota Meyrick by Turner (1899) as first reviser)

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