Species Callopistria rivularis Walker, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Callopistria rivularis Walker, F. 1858. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 12: 765-982 [Date published 9 Jan. 1858: dated 1857] [867].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, North India.
• Eriopus xanthopera Hampson, G.F. 1908. 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. 7 xv 709 pp., 1 folded page. [545, pl. 121, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Pirmad, Travancore, [India].
• Eriopus cyclopis Hampson, G.F. 1908. 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. 7 xv 709 pp., 1 folded page. [547, pl. 121, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Kiriwini, Kiriwina Islands [as 'Trobriand Islands'], [Papua New Guinea].

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

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, 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

Larvae have been recorded as feeding on Adiantum caudatum and A. philippense (Adiantaceae).

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