Species Chasmina candida (Walker, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arbasera candida Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [638].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Kampuchea [as 'Cambodia'].
• Xanthodes mariae Mabille, M.P. 1881. Note sur plusiers envois de Lépidoptères. Bulletin ou Comptes-rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 25: lv-lxv [lx].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, [Nossi Be], Madagascar.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Viette, P. 1954. Les types de Lépidoptères Hétérocéres Malgaches de Mabille se trouvent aus Museum National, Paris. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar Série E 5: 377-387 [386].
• Clinophlebia sericea Hampson, G.F. 1893. Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the British Museum. The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 9 v 182 pp., 20 pls. [17, pl. 161, fig. 7].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Colombo, Sri Lanka [as 'Ceylon'].
• Chasmina verticata Warren, W. 1913. Amphipyrinae. 116-200, pls 14-21 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Macrolepidoptera of the Indo-Australian Fauna. 11. Noctuiform Phalaenae. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag ii+488 pp, 56 pls. [193, pl. 21, row d].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Solomon Islands; Louisiade Archipelago [as 'The Louisiades'], [Papua New Guinea]; New Guinea; Queensland.

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. [325]

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

Larvae have been recorded as feeding on Hibiscus tiliaceus and Thespesia populnea (Malvaceae).

History of changes