Species Melastrota nigrisquamata (Swinhoe, 1901)

Melastrota nigrisquamata (Swinhoe, 1901), female

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudoblabes nigrisquamata Swinhoe, C. 1901. New genera and species of eastern and Australian moths. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 463-473 [467].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Coomoo, Queensland.
• Pseudoblabes dona Swinhoe, C. 1901. New genera and species of eastern and Australian moths. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 463-473 [467].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Coomoo, Queensland.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Turner, A.J. 1940. A revision of the Australian Arctiidae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 51: 51-131 [105]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

General References

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. [279] (Note #546: Melastrota nigrisquamata (Swinhoe, 1901) and M. dona (Swinhoe, 1901) were published simultaneously. Priority was given to M. nigrisquamata (Swinhoe) by Turner (1940a) as first reviser)

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