Species Oxythecta acceptella (Walker, 1864)
- Oecophora acceptella Walker, F. 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 562-835 [694].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, Qld. - Cryptolechia abstersella Walker, F. 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 562-835 [762].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, Qld.Subsequent designation references:
Common, I.F.B. 1997. Oecophorine genera of Australia. II. The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 5: i-xvi, 1-407 [93]. - Oecophora connexella Walker, F. 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 29: 562-835 [695].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, Qld.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva in mammal scat. Larval food: scat of Petrogale penicillatus—Rock Wallaby; Vombatus ursinus—Common Wombat.
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. [343: Note #59] (Oxythecta acceptella (Walker, 1864), O. abstersella (Walker, 1864) and O. connexella (Walker, 1864) were published simultaneously. Priority was given to O. acceptella (Walker) by Meyrick (1885a) as first reviser)
History of changes
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