Species Diarsia intermixta (Guenée, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Noctua intermixta Guenée, A. 1852. Noctuélites I. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 5 xcvi, 407 pp. [337].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, unknown ['sans indication de patrie'; Indo-Australian].
• Graphiphora compta Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. In, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 10. 253-491 pp. [year of publication not confirmed; dated 1856] [404].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ [as ♂], New South Wales.
• Taeniocampa immunis Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. In, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 10. 253-491 pp. [year of publication not confirmed; dated 1856] [430].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, New Zealand.
• Graphiphora quadrata Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [745].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ [as ♂], Tasmania.
• Cerastis innocua Walker, F. 1858. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 15: 1520-1888 [incl. index to parts 9-15] [1710].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Vanuatu [as New Hebrides].
• Apamea reciproca 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] [672].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, [QLD].
• Orthosia breviuscula Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [716].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, [QLD].
• Orthosia communicata Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [716].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Anchoscelis bicolor Walker, F. 1869. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. London : E.W. Janson 112 pp. [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀, [not stated] [Australia].
• Orthosia deprivata Walker, F. 1869. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. London : E.W. Janson 112 pp. [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀, [not stated] [Australia].
• Agrotis acetina Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1874. [1874-1875]. Lepidoptera. Heterocera. Noctuida. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil). Wien. Band 2 (Abtheilung 2). [pl. 109, fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, New Zealand.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae. Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). E.J. Brill & Flora & Fauna Publications : Leiden & Gainsville. xii +1314 pp. [315]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larvae have been recorded as feeding on weeds and crops, including Artotheca calendula, (Asteraceae), Trifolium (Fabaceae), Erodium sp. (Geraniaceae), Solanum (Solanaceae), Beta (Chenopodiaceae), the fruites of Malus domestica (Rosaceae), Sinapis alba and Brassica (Brassicaceae), causing serious damage to crops of the latter in Tasmania.

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