Species Calicotis crucifera Meyrick, 1889

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calicotis crucifera Meyrick, E. 1889. Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 21: 154-188 [170].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, New Plymouth (as Taranaki), New Zealand.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kasy, F. 1973. Beitrag zur kenntnis der familie Stathmopodidae Meyrick, 1913 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 116: 227-299 [244].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva under webbing. Larval foodplant: sporangia of Platycerium spp. (Polypodiaceae).

History of changes