Genus Epicoma Hübner, 1819

Museums

Regional Maps

• Epicoma Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [160].

  Type species:

   Epicoma tristis Hübner, [1819] ([Australia] Neuholland) by subsequent designation.
• Marane 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].

  Type species:

   Marane subargentea Walker, 1865 (Australia: northern) by monotypy.
• Epicona Lower, O.B. 1893. A catalogue of Victorian Heterocera. Part i-vii. Victorian Naturalist 10: 12-15, 31-34, 51-54, 65-68, 81-84, 97-100, 113-116 [54] [subsequent misspelling].
• Epicomana Kiriakoff, S.G. 1970. Lepidoptera. Familia Thaumetopoeidae. Genera Insectorum 219: 1-54, pls 1-3 [42].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Notodontidae (Ceruridae). pp. 272-274, 366-367 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. [273] (for synonymy of Epicomana)

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Notodontidae (Ceruridae). pp. 272-274, 366-367 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. [273] (Note #514: Epicoma Hübner, [1819]. Epicoma was divided into three genera by Kiriakoff (1970) and the male genitalia of some species are very different. However, if all the species are considered there is a gradual change in some genitalic characters while other characters run counter to Kiriakoff's (1970) groupings. If the genus is to be subdivided then more than three genera would be necessary. Nevertheless there are two well defined groups: E. argentata (Walker, 1865) to E. chrysosema Turner, (1922b) form one (the genus-group name Marane Walker, 1865 is available for this entity) and E. zelotes Turner, 1902 to E. poratificalis Rosenstock, 1885 form another (the genus-group name Epicoma Hübner is available for this entity). E. protrakens (Lucas, 1890) cannot be placed in Tearina Kiriakoff, 1970 with the unrelated Tearina nigrolineata Joicey, Noakes & Talbor, 1916) from New Guinea)

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