Genus Artiastis Meyrick, 1889
- Artiastis Meyrick, E. 1889. Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. XV. Oecophoridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 3(4): 1565-1703 [year of publication not confirmed] [1674].
Type species:
Artiastis tepida Meyrick, 1889 by subsequent designation, see Meyrick, E. 1922. Lepidoptera Heterocera. Fam. Oecophoridae. Genera Insectorum 180: 1-224, pls 1-6 [30]. - Asthenica Turner, A.J. 1935. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 1-15 [3] [nom. nud.].
- Asthenica Turner, A.J. 1936. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 61: 298-317 [303].
Type species:
Asthenica stenopolia Turner, 1936 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)
General References
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. [343: Note #45] (Asthenica Turner, 1935, nomen nudum. First published after 1930 in a key to genera without the designation of a type species, this name was not nomenclaturally available (Article 13(b)) until the genus was formally described by Turner (1936b), with A. stenopolia Turner as the type species by monotypy)
History of changes
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