Genus Austromusotima Yen & Solis, 2004

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• Austromusotima Yen, S.H. & Solis, M.A. in Yen, S.H., Solis, M.A. & Goolsby, J.A. 2004. Austromusotima, a new musotimine genus (Lepidoptera : Crambidae) feeding on old world climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum (Schizaeaceae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(3): 397-410 [398].

  Type species:

   Oligostigma camptozonale Hampson, 1897 by original designation.

Introduction

A second species that comprised part of the type series of Austromusotima was identified by Yen et al. (2004) as Austromusotima metastictalis (Hampson), from New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Yen, S.H. & Solis, M.A. in Yen, S.H., Solis, M.A. & Goolsby, J.A. 2004. Austromusotima, a new musotimine genus (Lepidoptera : Crambidae) feeding on old world climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum (Schizaeaceae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(3): 397-410

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