Species Neumichtis saliaris (Guenée, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Apamea saliaris Guenée, A. 1852. Noctuélites I. In, Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 5 xcvi, 407 pp. [212].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♀, Australia [as 'Nouvelle-Hollande'].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Viette, P. 1951. Sur quelques Noctuelles décrites par Guenée (1852-1854). Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 20: 159-162 [160].
• Euplexia confundens Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [544].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀ ♂, Tasmania.
• Euplexia exclusa Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [545].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Tasmania.
• Hadena familiaris Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [597].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Tasmania.
• Hadena punctisigna Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 11: 492-764 [600].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Tasmania.
• Euplexia spilophanes Swinhoe, C. 1900. Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 2. Noctuina, Geometrina and Pyralidina. Pteropophoridae and Tineina by Right Hon. Lord Wasingham and John Hartley Durrant. Oxford : Claredon Press (a) vi+630 pp., 8 pls. [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂, Tasmania [as 'Van Diemen's Land'].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [322]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

The larvae have been recorded as causing substantial damage to Brassica rapa (Brassicaceae) in Tasmania [ANIC record] and as feeding on Beta (Chenopodiaceae), Solanum (Solanaceae) and Trifolium (Fabaceae).

 

History of changes

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