Species Chezala privatella (Walker, 1864)
- Cryptolechia privatella Walker, F. 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 562-835 [753].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, Qld. - Cryptolechia latiorella Walker, F. 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 562-835 [755].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW. - Chezala allatella Walker, F. 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 562-835 [788].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Vic: 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), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva in shelter of rolled dead leaf or bark in leaf litter. Larval foodplant: dead leaves of Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae).
General References
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. [343: Note #50] (Chezala privatella (Walker, 1864), C. latiorella (Walker, 1864) and C. allatella (Walker, 1864) were published simultaneously. Priority was given to C. privatella (Walker) by Meyrick (1884d) as first reviser)
History of changes
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