Species Anachloris uncinata (Guenée, 1857)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Camptogramma uncinata Guenée, A. 1857. Title unknown. p. 119 in Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 10 584 pp., 24 pls. [424].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN ♀, [Australia]: Tasmania.
• Panagra plurilineata Walker, F. 1861. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 23: 756-1020 [1011].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia: Sydney.
• Panagra intercalata Walker, F. 1861. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 23: 756-1020 [1012].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia: Sydney.
• Panagra approximata Walker, F. 1861. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 23: 756-1020 [1002].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia: [New South Wales], Sydney.
• Camptogramma replicata Walker, F. 1862. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 25: 1281-1477 [1330].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia.
• Panagra revulsaria Walker, F. 1863. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 26: 1478-1796 [Date published 1863: incl. Index to parts 20-26; dated 1862] [1665].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia.
• Cidaria gallinata Felder, C., Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1875. [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. 140 pls [pl. 131, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Australia: Sydney.

 

Generic Combinations

• Hydriomena uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  Meyrick, E. 1890. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 5(4): 791-879
• Anachloris uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 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. [226]
• Cidaria uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  Turner, A.J. 1922. Australian Lepidoptera of the group Geometrites. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 46: 225-294
• Cidaria uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  Turner, A.J. 1926. A revision of Lepidoptera of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1925: 118-151
• Anachloris uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  Schmidt, O. 2001. Australian species of Anachloris Meyrick (Lepidoptera : Geometridae : Larentiinae): taxonomy, musculature of the male genitalia and systematic position. Australian Journal of Entomology 40(3): 219-230 [224]
• Ochyria uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  Swinhoe, C. 1900. Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 2. Noctuina, Geometrina and Pyralidina. Pteropophoridae and Tineina by Right Hon. Lord Wasingham and John Hartley Durrant. Oxford : Claredon Press (a) vi+630 pp., 8 pls.
• Coenotephria uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  Prout, L.B. 1939. Larentiinae. 239-292, 309-316, 349-356, pls 24-41 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 12. The Indoaustralian Geometridae. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 1-191, 309-316, 349-356 pp., 1-34, 36-41, 50 pls. [267-268]
• Hydriomena uncinata (Guenée, 1857). —
  Turner, A.J. 1904. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Family Geometridae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 16: 218-284

 

Introduction

Mainly day-flying, but also come freely to light traps.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Coast south of Kalbarri and southwestern corner of Western Australia. South of Paluma, Queensland.

Australian Endemic.

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Hibbertia stricta (DC.) F.Muell. [DILLENIACEAE] Erect Guinea Flower; Hibbertia obtusifolia DC [DILLENIACEAE] hoary guineaflower (Common foodplant of woodllands and forests and persists on disturbed areas)).

Associated Flora References

McFarland, N. 1979. Annotated list of larval foodplant records for 280 species of Australian moths. Journal of Lepidoptera Research Supplement 3: i-ii, 1-72 (Hibbertia stricta)

Schmidt, O. 2001. Australian species of Anachloris Meyrick (Lepidoptera : Geometridae : Larentiinae): taxonomy, musculature of the male genitalia and systematic position. Australian Journal of Entomology 40(3): 219-230 [225] (Hibbertia obtusifolia)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Feb-2022	GEOMETROIDEA	24-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Cathy Byrne (TMAG) Di Moyle (TMAG)
21-Feb-2022	GEOMETRIDAE	24-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
21-Feb-2022		24-Nov-2023	MODIFIED
		26-May-2010	MODIFIED