Species Bathytricha truncata (Walker, 1856)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucania truncata Walker, F. 1856. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 9: 1-252 [111].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Adelaide, SA.
• Nonagria exitiosa Olliff, A.S. 1894. Report on a visit to the Clarence River District for the purpose of ascertaining the nature and extent of insect ravages in the sugar cane crop. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 4: 373-387 [380].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ ♂, Maclean, Palmers Island, Chatsworth Island, Harwood Island, Clarence River, Ash Island, Hunter River and Tweed River, NSW; Mackay, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae. Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). E.J. Brill & Flora & Fauna Publications : Leiden & Gainsville. xii +1314 pp. [158]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larvae have been recorded as feeding in the stems of Paspalum dilatatum, Phraginites australis, native reeds, Saccharum sp., Zea mays, Oryza sp., Triticum spp. (Poaceae), Zingiber officinalis (Zingiberaceae) and Gladiolus sp. (Iridaceae).

 

History of changes

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