Species Achaea janata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Phalaena melicerta Drury, 1773.
- Noctua tigrina Fabricius, 1775.
- Noctua cyathina Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [466].
- Catocala traversii Fereday, 1877.
- Phalaena melicerte Moore, 1885.
- Ophiusa ekeikei Bethune-Baker, 1906.
- Achaea melicertoides Gaede, 1938.
- Achaea melicertella Gaede, 1938.
Notes
The names 'melicertella Strand, 1914 (Achaea) infrasubsp.' and melicertoides Strand, 1914 (Achaea) infrasubsp' are listed by Nielsen et al. (1996: 306) as synonyms under this species, but with no indication of the original species.
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.
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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