Species Abantiades leucochiton (Pfitzner, 1914)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pielus leucochiton Pfitzner, R. 1914. Neue Hepialiden. Entomologische Rundschau 31: 95-96 [95].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SMF ♂, 'Hinterland of Sydney', NSW.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva subterranean feeding on roots. Larval foodplants: Casuarina spp. or Allocasuarina spp. (Casuarinaceae). Recorded by Tindale (1932) from roots of Allocasuarina luehmannii but with botanical taxonomic changes other species may be involved.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2017		17-Nov-2015	MOVED
26-Jun-2017	HEPIALIDAE	29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED