Family EUPTEROTIDAE

eupterotidae

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Introduction

The Eupterotidae were revised by Turner (1922b) and included in Seitz, Macrolepidoptera of the World, by Seitz (1924b) and Strand (1924). The composition of the family and the subfamily arrangement used here follows Forbes (1955).

In Australia six species are included in three genera but the Australian endemic genus Panacela Walker contains an unresolved complex of species. In Cotana Walker most of the species are known from New Guinea and the sexes are difficult to associate. Cotana Walker was last revised by Rothschild (1917) and when the New Guinean species are better studied the Australian ones may be more reliably associated with them.

Eupterote Hübner (which extends to Africa) and Cotana Walker are, within Australia, confined to moist areas of northern Queensland. Panacela Walker is found along the eastern coast from the Atherton Tableland in Queensland to southern N.S.W.

The larval hairs of Panacela lewinae (Lewin) have been associated with skin irritation in humans (Southcott 1978, 1987).

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Misidentifications

EUPTEROTIDAE: Eupterote Hübner, 1820 — Oberprieler, R.G., Nässig, W.A. & Edwards, E.D. 2003. Ebbepterote, a new geus for the Australian 'Eupterote' expansa (T.P. Lucas), with a revised classification of the family Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 99-110

General References

Forbes, W.T.M. 1955. The subdivision of the Eupterotidae (Lepidoptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 98: 85-132

Rothschild, L.W. 1917. On the genera Melanothrix, Drepanojana, Melandergon, Paracydas, Cotana, Hypercydas, Epicydas and Nervicompressa of the family Eupterotidae aith descriptions of new forms. Novitates Zoologicae 24: 463-492

Seitz, A. 1924. Eupterotidae. Pp. 417-421, 426-432, pls 37, 56 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls.

Southcott, R. 1987. Moths and butterflies. pp. 243-257 in Covacevich, J., Davie, P. & Pearn, J. (eds). Toxic Plants and Animals. A Guide for Australia. Brisbane : Queensland Museum 504 pp.

Southcott, R.V. 1978. Lepidopterism in the Australian region. Records of the Adelaide Children's Hospital 2: 87-173

Strand, E. 1924. [Eupterotidae] Apha-Ganisa. Pp. 422-425, pls 29, 31, 36, 37, 56, 57 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls.

Turner, A.J. 1922. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Saturniadae, Bombycidae, Eupterotidae, Notodontidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 348-390 [Date published 15 Dec. 1922]

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