Species Oxycanus antipoda (Herrich-Schäffer, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Epiolus antipoda Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1853. Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropaischer schmetterlinge. 1850-1858. Regensburg : Manz pls 1-16. [wrapper, pl. 10, fig. 44].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, incorrectly given as Nov. Zeeland.
• Epiolus sordidus Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1853. Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter aussereuropaischer schmetterlinge. 1850-1858. Regensburg : Manz pls 1-16. [wrapper, Pl. 11, fig. 49].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♂, 'unknown' was given in original publication; New Zealand given on label.
• Oxycanus fuscomaculatus Walker, F. 1856. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 7: 1508-1808 [incl. Index to parts 1-7] [published May 1856] [1574].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (Tindale (1935) referred to a type and illustrated a particular specimen as the type. This is construed to be a valid lectotype designation), Van Diemen's Land.
• Oxycanus pardalinus Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [598].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, southern Australia (Tindale (1935) interpreted Walker's type locality of 'South Australia' as southern Australia).

  Type locality references:

  Tindale, N.B. 1935. Revision of the Australian ghost moths (Lepidoptera, Homoneura, Family Hepialidae). Part III. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 275-332 [295].

 

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. [26]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva subterranean, emerging from tunnel at night to feed. Larval foodplant: grass (Poaceae) (Hardy, 1974).

 

General References

Hardy, R.J. 1974. The biology and pest status of Oxycanus fuscomaculatus Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) in Tasmania. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 317-328 [317]

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. [26] (Note #2: Oxycanus sordidus (Herrich-Schäffer, [1853]). Tindale (1935: 317) designated a neotype for sordidus Herrich-Schäffer and placed it as a senior subjective synonym of Oxycanus rufescens (Walker, 1856). However, the type of sordidus is present in the ZMB and is conspecific with specimens of Oxycanus antipoda (Herrich-Schäffer, [1853]), also in ZMB. O. antipoda and sordidus were published simultaneously and priority given to O. antipoda by Nielsen in Nielsen et al., (1996) as first reviser. Under the Code Art. 75 (h) this case of a rediscovered primary type should be referred to the Commission asking the neotype not be retained as the name-bearing type)

 

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
26-Jun-2017		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)