Species Artiastis tepida Meyrick, 1889

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• Artiastis tepida 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 data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Melbourne, Vic.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Common, I.F.B. 1997. Oecophorine genera of Australia. II. The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 5: i-xvi, 1-407 [124].
• Eulechria leptomera Lower, O.B. 1900. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 29-51, 403-423 [412].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Gisborne, Vic.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva between joined green leaves. Larval foodplants: green leaves of Eucalyptus bicostata, E. dives, E. tereticornis (Myrtaceae).

 

History of changes

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