Genus Asura Walker, 1854

Museums

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• Asura Walker, F. 1854. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 2: 279-581 [484].

  Type species:

   Asura cervicalis Walker, 1854 by subsequent designation, see Kirby, W.F. 1892. A Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (moths). Sphinges and Bombyces. London : Gurney & Jackson Vol. 1 xii 951 pp. [299].
• Pitane Walker, F. 1854. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 2: 279-581 [531] [junior homonym; Pitane Walker, 1854, p.462].

  Type species:

   Pitane conferta Walker, 1854 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [426] (Ceylon).
• Nepita Moore, F. in Horsfield, T. & Moore, F. 1860 [1859]. A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of Natural History at the East-India House. London : W.H. Allen and Co. Vol. 2 279-440, 1-6 pp., 13-23, 7-13 pls (1858-[1860]). [302].

  Type species:

   Pitane conferta Walker, 1854 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [426] (Ceylon).
• Stonia Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31: 1-321 [Part 31 dated 1864 but published 11 February, 1865] [187].

  Type species:

   Stonia bipars Walker, [1865] by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Arctiidae. pp.278-286 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. [280] (Asura Walker, 1854 is used in a more restricted sense here than is the common usage. This follows Turner (1940a). Most authors include species placed here in Lyclene Moore, and Gymnasura Hampson)

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