Species Agrotis munda Walker, 1857

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agrotis munda Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. In, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 10. 253-491 pp. [year of publication not confirmed; dated 1856] [348].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Adelaide, [SA]; Sydney, [NSW]; TAS; NSW; Australia; New Zealand.
• Mamestra basinotata Walker, F. 1858. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 15: 1520-1888 [incl. index to parts 9-15] [1686].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, [QLD].
• Agrotis turbulenta Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [703].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, [QLD].
• Agrotis injuncta Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [703].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Adelaide, SA.
• Agrotis scapularis Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1874. [1874-1875]. Lepidoptera. Heterocera. Noctuida. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil). Wien. Band 2 (Abtheilung 2). [pl. 110, fig. 13].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Common, I.F.B. 1958. The Australian cutworms of the genus Agrotis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 6: 69-88, 3 pls [77] (also included Euxoa radians Hampson, 1903 as a junior synonym)
• Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae. Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). E.J. Brill & Flora & Fauna Publications : Leiden & Gainsville. xii +1314 pp. [52]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Larvae are important pests of many field and vegetable crops, including Zea mays, Triticium and Hordeum (Poaceae), Medicago (Fabaceae), Gossypium (Malvaceae), Nicotiana tabacum and Lycopersicon (Solanaceae).

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