Species Argina astrea (Drury, 1773)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phalaena astrea Drury, D. 1773. Illustrations of Natural History; wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects according to their genera. London : White Vol. 2 90 pp. 50 pls. [this work is the subject of Opinion 474, ICZN (1958), and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature; names only available from index issued in 1773, work dated 1770–1780] [Index [1], Plate VI, p 11] (name Phalaena astrea available from Index to Vol 2, spelled astraea in body of work (Pl. VI) but not following principles of binomial nomenclature and thus unavailable).
• Phalaena astraea Drury, D. 1773. Illustrations of Natural History; wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects according to their genera. London : White Vol. 2 90 pp. 50 pls. [this work is the subject of Opinion 474, ICZN (1958), and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature; names only available from index issued in 1773, work dated 1770–1780] [11, pl. 6, fig. 3] [subsequent misspelling; unavailable, see ICZN Opinion 474 (1958)].
• Phalaena cribraria Clerck, C 1764. Icones insectorum rariorum. Sect. secunda cum ominibus trivialibus logisque e nob. equ. Linneai stemate naturali adjectis. Holmiae pp. 1-5, Tab. 17-55. [Pl. 54] [junior homonym; Phalaena cribraria Linnaeus, 1758].
• Bombyx pylotis Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [585].
• Deiopeia dulcis Walker, F. 1854. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 2: 279-581 [569].
• Argina astraea detersa Hulstaert, G. 1923. On Lepidoptera from New Guinea, Kei, Tenimber, the Philippines, and Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 178-190 [188].
• Argina astraea perforata Seitz, A. (ed.) 1927. The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9 1197 pp. [584].

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes