Species Pasiphilodes testulata (Guenée, 1857)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eupithecia testulata Guenée, A. 1857. Title unknown. p. 119 in Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 10 584 pp., 24 pls. [352] [recognised as a ssp. of P. testulata by Scoble, 1999].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Nouvelle-Hollande [Australia].
• Scotosia denotata Walker, F. 1862. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 25: 1281-1477 [1361].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, New Zealand [Auckland].
• Scotosia humerata Walker, F. 1862. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 25: 1281-1477 [1362].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, New Zealand: [Auckland].
• Phibalapteryx parvulata Walker, F. 1863. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 26: 1478-1796 [Date published 1863: incl. Index to parts 20-26; dated 1862] [1721].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, New Zealand: [Hawkes Bay or Taupo].
• Chloroclystis testulata irregulata Prout, L B 1958. New species of Indo-Australian Geometridae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 6(12): 365-463.
• Phrissogonus denotatus Meyrick, E. 1891. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5[1890](4): 791-879 [798] [emendation; emendation of denotata Walker].
• Chloroclystis testulata albiplaga Prout, L B 1958. New species of Indo-Australian Geometridae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 6(12): 365-463 [infrasubsp.].

Ecological Descriptors

Caterpillar: herbivore (associated flora: Malus [ROSACEAE] Apples; Acacia [FABACEAE] Wattle).

General References

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [706]

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