Species Eschatura lactea (Turner, 1898)
- Phloeophorba lactea Turner, A.J. 1898. The Xyloryctidae of Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum 4: 1-32 [date from Ingram 1986] [23].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC 2♀, Charters Towers, Qld. - Scieropepla nettomorpha Meyrick, E. 1930. Exotic Microlepidoptera. Vol. 4(1): 1-32. [15].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂ (Meyrick incorrectly recorded the holotype as a female), Burdekin River, Qld.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva boring in stem. Larval foodplant: introduced Carya illinoensis—Pecan nut (Juglandaceae).
General References
Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [346: Note #128] (Phloeophorba lactea Turner, 1898. Two new species, lactea and codonoptera were included in Phloeophorba Turner, 1898, without the designation of a type species. As Turner commented that the generic position of lactea could not be determined with certainty in the absence of the male, codonoptera must be designated as the type species (Code [1986] Article 68(d)). However, codonoptera is a junior subjective synonym of lemurias Meyrick, 1897, the type species of Eschatura Meyrick, 1897, and Phloeophorba therefore becomes a junior synonym of Eschatura)
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