Species Gymnasura flavia (Hampson, 1900)

Gymnasura flavia (Hampson, 1900), male

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Asura flavia Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [429].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Kapaur, S. W. N. Guinea (Papua New Guinea).
• Pallene homoea Turner, A.J. 1940. A revision of the Australian Arctiidae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 51: 51-131 [102].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QMBA T8545 ♂, Cape York, North Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E.D. 1996. Arctiidae. pp.278-286 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. [280, pl. 30, fig. 7]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes