Species Blenina lichenopa (Meyrick, 1897)

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• Ceparcha lichenopa Meyrick, E. 1897. Descriptions of new Lepidoptera from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1897: 367-390 [374].
• Blenina calena Swinhoe, C. 1900. Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 2. Noctuina, Geometrina and Pyralidina. Pteropophoridae and Tineina by Right Hon. Lord Wasingham and John Hartley Durrant. Oxford : Claredon Press (a) vi+630 pp., 8 pls. [81].
• Bryophila exquisita Lucas, T.P. 1900. New species of Queensland Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 15: 137-161 [150].
• Blenina solomonis Swinhoe, C. 1905. Notes on eastern and Australian Heterocera, with descriptions of one new genus and thirteen new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 142-155 [151].
• Blenina nigrans Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1906. New Noctuidae from British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 191-287 [222].
• Blenina nigrans varians Bethune-Baker, G.T. 1906. New Noctuidae from British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 191-287 [223].
• Blenina varians Hampson, G.F. 1912. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 11 xvii 689 pp. [414].
• Blenina vatu Robinson, G.S. 1975. Macrolepidoptera of Fiji and Rotuma: A taxonomic and biogeographic study. Faringdon : E.W. Classey vii+362 pp., 15 maps, 357+173 figs, 6 pp. index, frontispiece. [157].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holloway, J.D. 1979. A survey of the Lepidoptera, biogeography and ecology of New Caledonia. Series Entomologica. The Hague : Dr W. Junk Vol. 15 xii+588 pp. [447-448]

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 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. [312] (Note #657: Blenina lichenopa (Meyrick, 1897) is treated here as senior subjective synonym of Blenina solomonis Swinhoe, 1905, and some other subsequent names. This arrangement follows Holloway (1979). Some series of this species from Australia with darker or paler hindwings show differences in genitalia and may represent further species)

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