Genus Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881

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• Idioglossa Walsingham, Lord 1881. On the Tortricidae, Tineidae, and Pterophoridae of South Africa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1881: 219-288 [273].

  Type species:

   Idioglossa bigemma Walsingham, 1881 by monotypy.
• Idiostoma Walsingham, Lord 1882. Notes on Tineidae of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 10: 165-204 [199] [proposed unnecessarily as an objective replacement name for Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881, which Walsingham considered was inappropriate; see Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monogr. Aust. Lepid. 4: i–xiv, 1–529 & CD–ROM (346: Note #124)].

  Secondary source:

   Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM.
• Metamorpha Frey, H. & Boll, J. 1878. Einige Tineen aus Texas. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 39: 249-279 [277] [junior homonym of Metamorpha Hübner, 1819].

  Type species:

   Metamorpha miraculosa Frey & Boll, 1878 by monotypy.

Distribution

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Queensland

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IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [85] (Note #124: Idioglossa Walsingham, 1881 was placed in the Batrachedridae, Batrachedrinae by Sugisima (2000). A new species of a gelechioid genus, Idioglossa Walsingham (Lepidoptera, Batrachedridae: Bactrachedrinae), from Japan. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan. 51: 319-336)

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