Species Agrotis porphyricollis Guenée, 1852
- Agrotis porphyricollis Guenée, A. 1852. Noctuélites I. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 5 xcvi, 407 pp. [259].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP ♂, Australia.Subsequent designation references:
Viette, P. 1951. Sur quelques Noctuelles décrites par Guenée (1852-1854). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 20: 159-162 [160]. - Perigea albinasus 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] [276].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Sydney, [NSW]. - Agrotis rubrilinea 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] [351].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Australia. - Agrotis recondita 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] [351].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Tasmania. - Graphiphora reclusa 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] [403].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, Australia. - Agrotis dorsicinis 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] [1701].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, [QLD]. - Graphiphora lapidosa 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] [1707].
Type data:
Holotype OUM ♀ [as ♂], New South Wales. - Spaelotis pectinata Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [707].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, [QLD]. - Elegarda orthosioides Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [873].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, [QLD]. - Tetrapyrgia graphiphorides Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [712].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Tasmania. - Elegarda summa Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [713].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Tasmania. - Hadena albipalpis Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [741].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ [as ♂], Moreton Bay, [QLD]. - Agrotis transversa Walker, F. 1869. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. London : E.W. Janson 112 pp. [70] [junior primary homonym of Agrotis transversa Walker, 1857].
Type data:
Holotype NMV ♀ [as ♂], [not stated]. - Agrotis baueri 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. 10].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia. - Graphiphora ctenota Turner, A.J. 1939. New Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50: 133-152 [142].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Scone, NSW.
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 [85-86]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), 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), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), 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)
Ecological Descriptors
Larvae have been recorded as feeding on dicotyledonous herbage and weeds (Arctotheca calendula (Asteraceae)), as well as being a minor pest of field crops (Beta (Chenopodiaceae) and Solanum (Solanaceae)) in QLD.
History of changes
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