Species Oncopera parva Tindale, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oncopera parva Tindale, N.B. 1933. Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 13-43 [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Cairns, Qld.
• Oncopera argentata Tindale, N.B. 1933. Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 13-43 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Cairns, Qld.

 

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. [25]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva subterranean emerging from the soil to feed. Larval foodplant: probably fallen leaves (Elder 1978).

 

General References

Elder, R.J. 1978. Notes on the biology and descriptions of the life stages of Oncopera parva Tindale (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17: 5-11 [5]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2017		17-Nov-2015	MOVED
26-Jun-2017	HEPIALIDAE	29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED