Species Palmartona catoxantha (Hampson, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brachartona catoxantha Hampson, G.F. 1893. Moths I. In, Blandford, W.T. (ed.). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 1 xxiii+527 pp. [233].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Tenasserim Valley, Burma.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known in Australia only from a single specimen collected at Taylor Range, Brisbane, QLD, by F.P. Dodd and not seen since. The species is a pest of palm trees in the Pacific Islands, Indonesia and New Guinea. The most likely explanation for the Australian record are either it represents an early accidental introduction that has since died out, or the known specimen has been mislabelled.

Ecological Descriptors

Larval foodplant: Cocos nucifera, Coconut Palm (Arecaceae).

General References

Tothill, J.D., Taylor, T.H.C. & Paine, R.W. 1930. The Coconut Moth in Fiji. A history of its control by means of parasites. London : The Imperial Bureau of Entomology viii 269 pp., pls 1-xxxiv.

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