Species Oxycanus subvaria (Walker, 1856)
- Elhamma subvaria 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] [1562].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂ (Tindale (1935) illustrated a particular one of the syntypes and called it the type. This is construed as a valid lectotype designation), Tasmania as Van Diemen's Land.Subsequent designation 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 [324]. - Oxycanus lamnus 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 [325].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♂, Manly, NSW. - Oxycanus subvarius 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] [1575] [Oxycanus subvarius Walker, 1856: 1575 is a junior secondary homonym and a junior objective synonym of Elhamma subvaria Walker, 1856: 1562 with the same type series; although only an academic question, as both descriptions were published simultaneously, priority was given by Meyrick (1890: 1123) to Elhamma subvaria].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, 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. [26] (Nielsen et al. first treated Oxycanus lamnus Tindale as a junior subjective synonym of O. subvarius (Walker). The homonymy and synonymy of the two subvaria is treated formally here for the first time)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), 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), 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), 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)
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) |