Genus Nacoleia Walker, 1859

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• Nacoleia Walker, F. 1859. Pyralides. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 19: 799-1036 [incl. index to parts 16-19] [934].

  Type species:

   Nacoleia murcusalis Walker, 1859 by monotypy.
• Semioceros Meyrick, E. 1884. On the classification of Australian Pyralidina. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884: 277-350 [292, 318].

  Type species:

   Salbia amphicedalis Walker, 1859 by subsequent designation.
• Aplomastix Warren, W. 1890. Descriptions of some new genera of Pyralidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 6: 474-479 [478].

  Type species:

   Asopia moninalis Walker, 1859 by original designation.
• Metasiodes Meyrick, 1894.

  Type species:

   Metasiodes heliaula Meyrick, 1894 by monotypy.
• Orthocona Warren, 1896.

  Type species:

   Thysanodesma eximialis Warren, 1896 by original designation.

General References

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. [191] (Note #275. Nacoleia Walker, 1859. Hampson (1918) incorrectly synonymized Nacoleia Walker with Lamprosema Hübner, 1823, and over the years Lamprosema Hübner has not only been widely used as the valid generic name but also as a repository for the synonymy of a vast number of similar, though probably unrelated genera. Lamprosema and its supposed synonyms have not been revised since Hampson and it is currently regarded as a 'dust bin' genus. The type species of Lamprosenza Hübner, Lamprosema lunulalis Hübner, 1823, described from Surinam, appears to be part of a well defined New World species group; the relationship between this group and Old World species presently placed in Lamprosema is unresolved. Munroe (1983) gave no synonymy for Lamprosema, though the BMNH Card Index lists 16 genera under synonymy, including Nacoleia. However, for many years Nacoleia has been used as a valid generic name (eg., Turner 1913b; Meyrick 1933, 1934a; Zimmerman 1958; Inoue 1982). [In the Checklist] Nacoleia [was] treated as a valid generic name with the Old World genera previously placed in synonymy of Lamprosema listed as synonyms)

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