Species Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
- Phalaena ipsilon Hufnagel, J. S. 1766. Forsetzung der Tabelle von den Nachtvögeln. IV. Fortsetzung der vierten Tabelle von den Insecten, besonders von denen so genannten Nachteulen als der zwoten Klasse. Der Nachtvögel hiesiger Gegend. Berlinisches Magazin, oder gesammelte Schriften und Nachrichten für die Liebhaber der Arzneywissenschaft, Naturgeschichte und der angenehmen Wissenschaften überhaupt 3(4): 393-426 [416].
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Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Berlin region, [Germany]. - Noctua suffusa [Denis, J.N.C.M. & Schiffermüller, I.] 1775. Ankündung eines systematischen Werkes von den Schmetterlingen der Wienergegend. Vienna : Augustin Bernardi 322 pp. 2 pls. [80].
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Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Vienna region, [Austria]. - Phalaena (Bombyx) idonea Cramer, P. 1780. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waerelddeelen Asia, Africa en America. 3. Amsterdam & Utrecht. 176 pp., pls 193-288 (1779-1780) [150, pl. 275, fig. h].
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Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, New York, [USA]. - Bombyx spinula Esper, E. J. C. 1786. Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Theil III: Die Nachtschmetterlinge. Erlangen : W. Walthers 273-396 pp., pls 56-79. [320, pl. 63, figs 6, 7].
Type data:
Lectotype ZSM ♂, [Erlangen, Germany] [as 'an gleichen Orten mit voriger an den Wänden und Zäunen'].Subsequent designation references:
Hacker, H.H. 1998. Die Typen der von E. J. Ch. Esper (1742-1810) in seinem "Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur" beschriebenen Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera). pp. 433-468 in Hacker, H.H. & Peks, H. (eds). Esperiana: Buchreihe zur Entomologie. Schwanfelden : Verlag Delta Druck Vol. 6 843 pp., 25 pls. [464]. - Phalaena (Bombyx) spiniferus Villers, C. de 1789. Caroli Linnaei Entomologica, Faunae Suecicae Descriptionibus Aucta; etc. Lugduni : Piestre and Delamollier Vol. 2 656, xvi pp. [174].
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Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, France. - Phalaena spinula Donovan, E. 1801. The Natural History of the British Insects; Explaining them in their several States, with the Periods of their Transformations, their Food, Oeconomy, etc, together with the History of such Minute Insects as Require Investigations by the Microscope. London : F. and C. Rivington Vol. 10 95 pp., [7 page index], plates 325-360. [52, pl. 345, figs 2, 3] [junior secondary homonym of Bombyx spinula Esper, 1786].
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Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, [not stated]. - Agrotis telifera Harris, T. W. 1841. Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, Injurious to Vegetation. Cambridge : Folsom, Welk and Thurston 459 pp. [323] [junior primary homonym of Agrotis telifera Donzel, 1837].
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Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Massachusetts, [USA]. - Agrotis bipars Walker, F. 1857. Noctuidae. In, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 10. 253-491 pp. [year of publication not confirmed; dated 1856] [334].
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Holotype BMNH, Venezuela. - Agrotis frivola Wallengren, H.D.J. 1860. Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 4: 33-46, 161-176 [169].
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Syntype(s) NHRM, Montevideo, [Uruguay]. - Noctua aneituma Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [701].
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Holotype BMNH ♂, Aneiteum, New Hebrides. - Agrotis pepoli Bertoloni, A. 1874. Intorno al danno arrecata alla canapa, al formentona ec. dall'Agrotis suffusa Ochsm. var. pepoli Bertol. nep nelle tene inondate nel comune di Bondeno nell primavera 1873. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 6: 139-146 [139].
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Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Bondeno, Italy. - Agrotis aureolum Schaus, W. 1898. New species of Noctuidae from tropical America. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 6: 107-120, 138-149 [107].
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Syntype(s) USNM, Castro, Parana, [Brazil].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Larvae are polyphagous and have been recorded as a pest of a very wide range of crops around the world, including Zea mays (Poaceae), Lycopersicon and Solanum (Solanaceae), Phaseolus (Fabaceae), Brassica (Brassicaceae), Fragaria (Rosaceae) and many others.
History of changes
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