Species Thoracolopha melanographa (Turner, 1908)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Caradrina melanographa Turner, A.J. 1908. New Australian Lepidoptera of the families Noctuidae and Pyralidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 55-109 [59].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV T-4285 ♂, Blackrock, near Melbourne, VIC
  Comment: Turner's syntype above is designated as the lectotype because the 1996 Checklist is based on this specimen (Hitchcock et al. 2017).
• Ariathisa ochropepla Turner, A.J. 1911. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Annals of the Queensland Museum 10: 59-135 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-4285 ♂, Black Rock, near Melbourne, VIC
  Comment: Turner's description is based on a single specimen.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [327]

 

Generic Combinations

• Proteuxoa melanographa (Turner, 1908) Edwards 1996. —
  Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 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. [327]
• Thoralocopha melanographa (Turner, 1908) Hitchcock et al. 2017. —
  Hitchcock, B., Edwards, E. & Mitchell, A. 2017. Integrating dots and spots with COI sequence data reinstates Thoracolopha Turner, 1939 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), for 13 Australian species formerly in Proteuxoa Hampson, 1903. Austral Entomology 57: 418–439 [Date published 2 October 2017: print copy available November 2018] [432]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

Diagnosis in Hitchcock et al. 2017

 

Diagnosis References

Hitchcock, B., Edwards, E. & Mitchell, A. 2017. Integrating dots and spots with COI sequence data reinstates Thoracolopha Turner, 1939 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), for 13 Australian species formerly in Proteuxoa Hampson, 1903. Austral Entomology 57: 418–439 [Date published 2 October 2017: print copy available November 2018] [433]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2022	NOCTUOIDEA	30-Oct-2021	MODIFIED
		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED