Genus Eudocima Billberg, 1820

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eudocima Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gustave Johann Billberg. Stockholm : Typis Gadelianis 4 unnumbered + 138 pp. [In Latin] [85].

  Type species:

   Phalaena salaminia Cramer, 1777 by monotypy.
• Elygea Billberg, 1820.
• Leptophara Billberg, 1820.
• Corycia Hübner, 1823.
• Trissophaes Hübner, 1823.
• Othreis Hübner, 1823.
• Maenas Hübner, 1823.
• Rhytia Hübner, 1823.
• Acacallis Hübner, 1823.
• Ophideres Boisduval, 1832.
• Acacalis Agassiz, 1847.
• Ophioderes Agassiz, 1847.
• Othryis Agassiz, 1847.
• Khadira Moore, 1881.
• Adris Moore, 1881.
• Purbia Moore, 1881.
• Vandana Moore, 1881.
• Argadesa Moore, 1881.
• Halastus Butler, 1892.
• Eumaenas Hampson, 1924.

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 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. [300] (Note 601. Eudocima Billberg, 1820, Elygea Billberg, 1820 and Leptophara Billberg, 1820 were published simultaneously. Eudocima Billberg was given priority by Nye (1975) as first reviser. There is general uncertainty and disagreement in the literature with regard to the treatment and status of the generic names of these important fruit-piercing moths. Views may be found in Sugi (1982) and Binziger (1982). Poole (1989) treats many of the generic names as synonyms. Few of the species involved, as type-species of the genera, occur in Australia and an adequate assessment of this problem is beyond the scope of this Checklist. Poole (1989) is followed here as the latest comprehensive list)

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