Species Ciampa arietaria (Guenée, 1857)

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• Chlenias arietaria Guenée, A. 1857. Uranides et Phalénites II. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 10 584 pp., 24 pls. [239].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, Tasmania.
• Chemerina cuneifera Walker, F. 1862. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 24: 1021-1280 [1155].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, Australia.
• Ciampa defixella Walker, F. 1863. Crambites & Tortricites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 27: 1-286 [180].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 2♀, [Australia]: New South Wales.
• Hypata moderatella Walker, F. 1869. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. London : E.W. Janson 112 pp. [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MVMA ♂, Australia.
• Chlenias crambaria Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1875. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil, Band 2, Abteilung 2) Heft 4. Wien. Plates 121-140 pp. [pl. 133, fig. 12].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♀, Australia meridionalis [south].
• Ciampa stenoptila Turner, A.J. 1947. New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58: 71-112 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, New South Wales, Murrurundi.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [203] (stenoptila)

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Erodium Aiton [GERANIACEAE] filarees, herons bill, storksbills; Lupinus L. [FABACEAE] lupins, lupines; Medicago L. [FABACEAE] medick, burclover; Onopordum L. [ASTERACEAE] thistle; Zaluzianskya F.W.Schmidt [SCROPHULARIACEAE]; Arctotheca Vaill. [ASTERACEAE]).

Associated Flora References

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [162] (Zaluzianskya; Medicago; Lupinus; Erodium; Arctotheca; Onopordum)

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