Species Nephogenes melanoptila (Meyrick, 1883)

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• Trachypepla melanoptila Meyrick, E. 1883. Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. IX. Oecophoridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 8(3): 320-383 [368].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Common, I.F.B. 1997. Oecophorine genera of Australia. II. The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 5: i-xvi, 1-407 [188].
• Eulechria dochmotypa Turner, A.J. 1938. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 27-54 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Toowoomba, Qld.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva in shelter of rolled leaf. Larval foodplant: dead leaves of Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED