Species Phaos interfixa Walker, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phaos interfixa Walker, F. 1855. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 3: 583-775 [627].
• Arctia pulchella Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1856. 1850-[1869]. Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge. Regensburg : G.J. Manz 84+4 pp., 100+28 pls. [pl.75, fig. 436].
• Estigmene pulchella rufa Rothschild, L.W. 1914. [Arctiidae, Tiger moths] Arctiinae. pp. 236-263, pls 19-25 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls. [254].
• Phaos acmena Turner, A.J. 1926. New and little-known Tasmanian Lepidoptera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1925: 81-117 [112].

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Females flightless

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. [285] (Note # 563: Phaos interfixa Walker, 1855. Turner (1926: 111) identified Walker's species with the species flying at high altitude in Tasmania. Walker's description is not accurate enough to distinguish the two. The specimen marked as the 'type’ in the BMNH is the species flying on the lowlands. Hampson (1900) figured a lowland specimenas P. interfixa Walker. It is possible that Walker had a mixed series as Turner (1926) implies. However, there is no evidence of this and the specimen considered as the 'type' by Hampson and so marked in the BMNH should be selected as lectotype. The name is applied to the lowland species in this Checklist although it leaves the high altitude species without a valid name)

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