Species Cleora repetita (Butler, 1882)

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• Boarmia repetita Butler, A.G. 1882. Descriptions of new species of Lepidoptera, chiefly from Duke-of-York Island and new Britain. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 10: 226-238 [232].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Duke-of-York Island.
• Boarmia inflexaria Snellen, P.C.T. 1881. Lepidoptera van Celebes gezameld door M.C. Piepers, met Aanteekeningen en Beschrijving der nieuwe Soorten. Heterocera. III. Geometrina. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 24: 69-96 [72, pl. 8, figs 2, 2a].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, 2♀, Celebes: Macassar.
• Boarmia epistictis Meyrick, E. 1889. On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1889: 455-522 [499].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 7, ♂, New Guinea.
• Chogada proletaria Swinhoe, C. 1915. [untitled section]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 16 [184].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂, ♀, Singapore.
• Syneora speciosa Turner, A.J. 1947. New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58: 71-112 [88] [Foodplant(s). Combretaceae: Lauraceae: Persea:Leguminosae (Fabaceae): Acacia mangium;Myrtacaea: Callistemon: Eucalyptus: Fenzlia; Rutaceae: Flindersia; Verbenaceae: Premna corymbosa.].

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T8043 ♂, Queensland, Cape York, 1.xi.1927, W. B. Barnard.

  Secondary source:

   Schmidt, O. 2012. An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane). Spixiana (Munich) 35(1): 79-100 [88].

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.

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Premna corymbosa (Burm.f.) Rottler [VERBENACEAE] Buas Buas; Eucalyptus l'Hérit. [MYRTACEAE] Gum trees; Acacia mangium Willd. [FABACEAE] Mangium; Terminalia calamansanai Standley & L.O.Williams [COMBRETACEAE] Philippine almond; Callistemon R.Br, [MYRTACEAE] bottlebrush; Terminalia brassii Exell [COMBRETACEAE] brown terminalia; Persea Mill. [LAURACEAE] laurel; Flindersia [RUTACEAE]; Myrtella F.Muell. [MYRTACEAE]).

Associated Flora References

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. (Premna corymbosa; Flindersia; Eucalyptus; Callistemon; Acacia mangium; Terminalia calamansanai; Persea; Terminalia brassii)

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