Species Paralaea ochrosoma (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chlenias ochrosoma Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1875. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil, Band 2, Abteilung 2) Heft 4. Wien. Plates 121-140 pp. (pl. 131, fig. 30).

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (There was no indication of the number of specimens available to the original authors, hence the presence of syntypes was assumed and a lectotype was selected to fix the application of the name (McQuillan et al. 2001)), Australia meridionalis.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McFarland, N. 1988. Portraits of South Australian geometrid moths. Kansas : Allen Press, Lawrence iv+400 pp., frontispiece. [167]
• McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [204]
• McQuillan, P.B., Young, C.J. & Richardson, A.M.M. 2001. A revision of the Australian moth genus Paralaea Guest (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 277–317

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

From a western limit in the Mt Lofty Ranges near Adelaide through south-eastern South Australia to eastern Victoria into south-eastern New South Wales including the A.C.T., from near sea level to about 300m. Although adults are locally very common, McFarland (1988) noted that larval densities are low in the eucalypt dominant forests of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

Australian Endemic.

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Eucalyptus leucoxylon F. Muell. [MYRTACEAE] yellow gum).

 

Diagnosis

The relatively uniform grey colouration and lack of patterning on the forewings help to distinguish this species from P. beggaria (also a “peppermint” eucalypt feeder) where they occur together as in eastern Victoria.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Feb-2022	GEOMETROIDEA	24-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Cathy Byrne (TMAG) Di Moyle (TMAG)
21-Feb-2022	GEOMETRIDAE	24-Nov-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
21-Feb-2022		24-Nov-2023	MODIFIED
21-Feb-2022		24-Nov-2023	MODIFIED
		26-May-2010	MODIFIED