Species Callopistria maillardi (Guenée, 1862)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eriopus maillardi Guenée, A. 1862. Annex G. Lépidoptères. 72 pp., 2 pls in Maillard, L. (ed.). Notes sur l'Île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Paris : Dentu. [39, pl. 22, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Réunion.
• Callopistria recurvata Moore, F. in Hewitson, W.C. & Moore, F. 1882. Descriptions of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the collection of the late W.S. Atkinson. Part ii. Heterocera, continued (Cymatophoridae-Herminiidae). Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal 89-198, pls iv, v. [144].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Darjiling [West Bengal] and Calcutta, [India]; Sri Lanka [as Ceylon].
• Callopistria meridionalis Collenette, C.L. 1928. The Arctiidae, Noctuidae and Sphingidae of the "St. George" Expedition, from French Oceania. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 76: 469-487, 1 pl. [471, pl. 21, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Rapa Island, [French Polynesia].
• Callopistria nauticorum Tams, W.H.T. 1935. Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda. Part III. Lepidoptera, fasc. 4, Heterocera. London : British Museum pp. 169-290, pls 6-18. [199, pl. 12, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Pago Pago, Tutuila, Samoa.
• Callopistria pseudintermissa Viette, P.E.L. 1965. Faune de Madagascar. XX(1). Insects. Lepidopteres Noctuidae Amphipyrinae (Part). Paris : O.R.S.T.O.M. pp. 295-490, vi, figs 184-342, 2 pls. [459].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Tsimbazaza Park, Tananarive, Madagascar (Central).
• Callopistria rotumensis 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. [123].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Furoroa, Rotuma, Fiji.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [323]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Larvae have been recorded as feeding on Adiantum, Pellaea (Pteridaceae), Lygodium (Lygodiaceae) and Nephrolepis cordifolia (Dryopteridaceae).

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