Species Ochrogaster lunifer Herrich-Schäffer, [1855]

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ochrogaster lunifer Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1855. Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge. Regensburg : G. J. Manz pp. [Date published 1855: dated 1850-1858] [p 67 fig. 377].
• Teara contraria Walker, F. 1855. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 4: 776-976 [Date published August] [846].
• Poecilocampa leucopyga Walker, F. 1855. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 6: 1258-1507 [Date published December] [1477].
• Teara interrupta Walker, F. 1855. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 4: 776-976 [Date published August] [850].
• Darala cinctifera Walker, F. 1862. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera in the collection of W.W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., &c. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 263-279 [268].
• Ochrogaster ruptimacula Felder, R. in Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1874. [1874-1875]. Lepidoptera. Heft IV, V. Atlas der Heterocera Sphingida. Noctuida. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil). Wien. Band 2 (Abtheilung 2). vi+548 pp. 74 pls. [95].
• Teara erebodes Lower, O.B. 1892. Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 10-15 [11].
• Marane rubricorpus Swinhoe, C. 1902. New species of eastern and Australian Heterocera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 9: 415-424 [420].
• Teara discistriga Strand, E. 1929. Appendix [Thaumetopoeinae]. Pp. 375-381, pls 46, 56c, 57 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. [377].
• Ochrogaster lanifer Strand, E. 1929. Appendix [Thaumetopoeinae]. Pp. 375-381, pls 46, 56c, 57 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. [378] [subsequent misspelling].
• Adelaidina dispar Kiriakoff, S.G. 1969. Un nouveau genre et deux nouvelles espèces de Thaumetopoeidae (Lep.: Notodontidae) Australiens. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique 105: 275-280 [275].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Notodontidae (Ceruridae). pp. 272-274, 366-367 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. [272] (for synonymy of A. dispar)

 

Introduction

Probably consists of several cryptic species however more sampling is required to determine the number of possible species. See Common (1990), Mather et al. (2019) and Perkins et al. (2024)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread and abundant moth native to Australia

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Common, I.F.B. 1990. Moths of Australia. Carlton : Melbourne University Press vi+535 pp., 32 pls.

Mather, A., Zalucki, M.P., Farrell, J., Perkins, L.E. & Cook, L.G. 2019. Australian processionary caterpillars, Ochrogaster lunifer Herrich-Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae), comprise cryptic species. Austral Entomology 58: 816-825

Perkins, L.E., Uemura, M., Zalucki, M.P., & Cook, L.G. 2024. Host specificity of two co-occurring nesting-forms of the bag-shelter moth Ochrogaster lunifer (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) is congruent with there being cryptic species. Austral Entomology 63(3): 406-412

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	NOCTUOIDEA	23-Sep-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Cathy Byrne Ms Eileen Lee (TMAG)
27-Jul-2017		17-Jun-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)