Species Aenetus tegulatus (Pagenstecher, 1888)

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• Hepialus tegulatus Pagenstecher, A. 1888. Beiträge zur Lepidopterenfauna des Malayinschen Archipels. V. Verzeichniss der Schmetterlinge von Amboina. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 41: 87-217 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMW ♀, Ambon, Indonesia.
• Hepialus rosatus Pagenstecher, A. 1888. Beiträge zur Lepidopterenfauna des Malayinschen Archipels. V. Verzeichniss der Schmetterlinge von Amboina. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 41: 87-217 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♂, Ambon, Indonesia.
• Hepialus cyanochlora Lower, O.B. 1894. New Australian Heterocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 77-113 [77].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♂, Mackay, Qld.
• Hepialus thermistis Lower, O.B. 1894. New Australian Heterocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 77-113 [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, Mackay, Qld.
• Charagia walsinghami Olliff, A.S. 1895. Australian Hepialidae. The Entomologist 28: 114-117 [116].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♀, Mt Bartle Frere, Qld.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [25]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva boring in stems of saplings of many plants. Larval foodplants include Allocasuarina littoralis (Casuarinaceae); Glochidion disparides (Euphorbiaceae).

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