Species Cryptophasa balteata (Walker, 1866)
Cryptophasa balteata (Walker, 1866) [photo by Len Willan]
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Species Cryptophasa balteata (Walker, 1866)
- Zitua balteata Walker, F. 1866. Supplement 5. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35: 1534-2040 [incl. Summary and Index to parts 31-35] [1841].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia. - Cryptophaga lurida Meyrick, E. 1890. Descriptions of Australian Lepidoptera. Part I. Xyloryctidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13: 23-81 [37].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Mt Lofty, SA. - Cryptophaga acroleuca Turner, A.J. 1898. The Xyloryctidae of Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum 4: 1-32 [date from Ingram 1986] [8].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC unknown number ♂♀, Brisbane, Qld.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA: 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), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva boring in stem, tying cut leaves to bore entrance. Larval foodplants Eucalyptus eugenioides, E. microcorys, E. tereticornis, E. saligna, E. viminalis (Myrtaceae).
History of changes
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