• Elesma 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] [608].

  Type species:

   Elesma subglauca Walker, 1865 by monotypy (Australia).
• Amaloptila Turner, A.J. 1903. New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic and other notes. Noctuidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 1-26 [6].

  Type species:

   Amaloptila triorbis Turner, 1903 by monotypy (Australia : New South Wales (Newcastle)).
• Spathoptila Turner, A.J. 1944. A revision of the Australian Nolidae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 55: 13-50 [47].

  Type species:

   Spathoptila cyclophora Turner, 1944 by monotypy (Australia : Western Australia (Nornalup)).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 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. [314]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Amaloptera Turner, 1903. —
  Hampson, G.F. 1912. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 11 xvii 689 pp. [369] (subsequent misspelling)

History of changes

• Elesma subglauca 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] [608].
• Metaptila ptilomela Lower, O.B. 1900. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 29-51, 403-423 [31].
• Amaloptila triorbis Turner, A.J. 1903. New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic and other notes. Noctuidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 1-26 [6].
• Spathoptila cyclophora Turner, A.J. 1944. A revision of the Australian Nolidae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 55: 13-50 [48].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 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. [314]

History of changes