Genus Ancara Walker, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ancara 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] [1714].

  Type species:

   Ancara replicans Walker, 1858 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1894. Moths II. In, Blandford, W.T. (ed.). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London : Taylor and Francis xxii+609 pp. [223].
• Ancaroides Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1906. New Noctuidae from British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 191-287 [196].

  Type species:

   Ancaroides kebea Bethune-Baker, 1906 by subsequent designation, see Collins, R.J. 1962. Some notes on G. T. Bethune-Baker's Generic names in Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 5: 5-6 [5].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [81]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

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