Species Maxates orthodesma (Lower, 1894)

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• Euchloris orthodesma Lower, O.B. 1894. New Australian Heterocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 77-113 [86] [Treated as ssp. by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T8033 ♂?, Queensland, Cairns, Sept. 1890, C. J. Wild.

  Secondary source:

   Schmidt, O. 2012. An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane). Spixiana (Munich) 35(1): 79-100 [89].
• Thalassodes albifusa 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 [293] [Treated as ssp. of orthodesma by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, [Papua New Guinea]: [D'Entrecasteaux Islands], Fergusson Island
  Comment: Originally as sp.

Generic Combinations

• Gelasma orthodesma (Lower, 1894). —
  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.
• Maxates orthodesma (Lower, 1894).

General References

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [579]

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