Species Opsirhina alphaea (Fabricius, 1775)

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• Bombyx alphaea 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].
• Odonestis hilaropa Lower, O.B. 1900. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 29-51, 403-423 [403].
• Clathe pyrsocoma Turner, A.J. 1902. New Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26: 175-207 [185].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Brisbane.
• Aspiducha lateritia Grünberg, K. 1923. Lasiocampidae. pp. 391-415, pls 32, 33, 46 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls.

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Lasiocampidae. pp. 255-257 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. [255] (Note #455: Bombyx alphaea Fabricius has previously been regarded as a senior subjective synonym of Eloasa calida Walker, 1865 in the Limacodidae. A photograph of the holotype of alphaea leaves no doubt of its identity)

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