Species Hyposidra incomptaria (Walker, 1866)

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• Lagyra incomptaria Walker, F. 1866. Supplement 5. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35: 1534-2040 [incl. Summary and Index to parts 31-35] [1539].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM ♂ (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), [Moluccas]: Aru.
• Lagyra corticata Walker, F. 1866. Supplement 5. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35: 1534-2040 [incl. Summary and Index to parts 31-35] [1540].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM ♂ (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), Tond.
• Hyposidra maculipennis Warren, W. 1896. New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 335-419 [416].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Solomon Islands.
• Hyposidra incomptaria pallida Warren, W. 1896. New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 335-419 (Infrasubspecies, not listed as such in Scoble (1999)).
• Hyposidra incomptaria nubilosa Warren, W. 1896. New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 335-419 (Infrasubspecies, not listed as such in Scoble (1999)).
• Hyposidra incomptaria tetraspila Warren, W. 1896. New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 335-419 (Infrasubspecies, not listed as such in Scoble (1999)).
• Hyposidra incomptaria innotata Warren, W. 1896. New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 335-419 (Infrasubspecies, not listed as such in Scoble (1999)).
• Hyposidra alfuraria Pagenstecher, A.A.F. 1886. Title unknown. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 1(3) [44, pl. 3, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂, Ceram.
• Hyposidra prunicolor Warren, W. 1897. New genera and species of moths from the Old-world regions in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 4: 12-130 [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, German New Guinea [Papua New Guinea]: Stephansort.
• Hyposidra lutosaria Pagenstecher, A. 1884. Beiträge zur Lepidopteren-fauna von Amboina. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 37: 150-326, 2 pls [261, pl. 7, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Amboin.
• Hyposidra rufoochracea Rothschild, L.W. 1915. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera. Part 1. London : Hazell, Watson & Viney pp. 1-168. [83] [listed as ssp. of incomptaria by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Dutch New Guinea [Irian Jaya]: Snow Mountains, Base Camp.
• Hyposidra variabilis Warren, W. 1896. New species of Drepanulidae, Thyrididae, Uraniidae, Epilemidae, and Geometridae from Papuan region, collected by Mr. Albert S. Meek. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 272-306 [306] (Originally described as species) [listed as ssp. of incomptaria by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, ♀, [Papua New Guinea]: [D'Entrecasteaux islands], Fergusson Island.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Swinhoe, C. 1900. Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 2. Noctuina, Geometrina and Pyralidina. Pteropophoridae and Tineina by Right Hon. Lord Wasingham and John Hartley Durrant. Oxford : Claredon Press (a) vi+630 pp., 8 pls. [249]

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Terminalia calamansanai (Blanco) Rolfe [COMBRETACEAE] Anarep; Palaquium gutta (Hook.) Burck [SAPOTACEAE] Gutta Percha; Eucalyptus deglupta Blume [MYRTACEAE] Kamarere; Campnosperma brevipetiolatum Volkens [ANACARDIACEAE] Kelela charm; Calophyllum peekelii A.C. Smith [CLUSIACEAE] Kolio, Ure-Ure, Calophyllum; Terminalia brassii Exell [COMBRETACEAE] swamp oak; Merremia pacifica Ooster. [CONVOLVULACEAE] veliyawa; Merremia peltata (L.) Merr. [CONVOLVULACEAE]).

General References

McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 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. [211] (Note #309: Hyposidra incomptaria (Walker, 1866), and H. corticata (Walker, 1866) were published simultaneously. Priority was given to H. incomptaria by Swinhoe (1900: 249) as first reviser)

Rothschild, L.W. 1915. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera. Part 1. London : Hazell, Watson & Viney pp. 1-168.

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [479]

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