Species Amerila crokeri (W.S. Macleay, 1826)

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• Euprepia crokeri 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] [465].
• Amerila brachyleuca Meyrick, E. 1886. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 1(3): 687-802 [765].
• Euprepia crockeri Swinhoe, C. 1892. Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 1. Sphinges and Bombyces. Oxford : Claredon Press viii+324 pp., 8 pls. [170] [subsequent misspelling].
• Rhodogastria croceri Hampson, G.F. 1901. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xix 690 pp., 1 folded page. [502, 504] [emendation].
• Rhodogastria novobritannica Rothschild, L.W. 1910. Descriptions of new species of Arctianae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 17: 172-188 [184].
• Rhodogastria salomonis Rothschild, L.W. 1910. Descriptions of new species of Arctianae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 17: 172-188 [184].
• Rhodogastria kajana Bryk, F. 1913. Zwei neue Lepidopteren aus Neu-Guinea, gesammelt von Professor Dr. Neuhausz. Archiv für Naturgeschichte Abteilung A. 79(6): 124-126 [126].
• Rhodogastria bakeri Rothschild, L.W. 1914. [Arctiidae, Tiger moths] Arctiinae. pp. 236-263, pls 19-25 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. [262].
• Rhodogastria papuana Rothschild, L.W. 1916. On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A. S. Meek from the Admirality Islands, Dampier and Vulcan Islands. Novitates Zoologicae 23(3): 319-334 [333] [junior homonym; papuana Rothschild, 1914].

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

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