Genus Mnesampela Guest, 1887

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• Mnesampela Guest, E. 1887. Type species: Panagra sparsularia Guenée, [1858]. p. 137 in Guest, E. A classified list of Geometrina found around Balhannah, with notes on species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 126-141 [138].

  Type species:

   Idiodes privata Guenée, 1858 by original designation.
• Mnesampela Meyrick, E. 1892. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 6(4): 581-678 [584] [junior homonym; and objective synonym. Guest published a list of Lepidoptera occurring in his local area Balhannah, South Australia in 1887. This list contained names of species identified by Meyrick, the descriptions of which were not fomally published until 1892 (McQuillan 1985)].

  Type species:

   Idiodes privata Guenée, 1858 by subsequent designation, see Fletcher, D.S. 1979. Geometroidea: Apoprogonidae, Axiidae, Callidulidae, Cyclidiidae, Drepanidae, Epicopieiidae, Epiplemidae, Geometridae, Pterothysanidae, Sematuridae, Thyatiridae, Uraniidae. In, Nye, I.W.B. (ed.). The Generic Names of Moths of the World. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 3 xx 243 pp. [131].

  Secondary source:

   McQuillan, P.B. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Australian autumn gum moth genus Mnesampela Guest (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Entomologica Scandinavica 16: 175-202 [176].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to euclaypt forests of southern Australia apart from M. athertonensis which inhabits elevated tablelands in north-eastern Australia.

Australian Endemic.

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Adults - R veins in forewing free, lacking apical spine on fore tibia, male sternite 2 with anterolateral horns, male sternite 3 with well developed seta comb, well developed spines on gnathos apex, vesica of aedeagus armed with spines, stellate signum. Larvae - early instars strongly gregarious.

 

Diagnosis References

McQuillan, P.B. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the Australian autumn gum moth genus Mnesampela Guest (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Ennominae). Entomologica Scandinavica 16: 175-202 [176, 180 - key]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Feb-2022	GEOMETROIDEA	04-Dec-2021	MODIFIED	Dr Cathy Byrne (TMAG) Di Moyle (TMAG)
21-Feb-2022		23-Oct-2012	MODIFIED
21-Feb-2022		28-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		26-May-2010	MODIFIED