Species Dysphania numana (Cramer, 1779)

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• Phalaena numana Cramer, P. 1779. Uitlandsche Kapellen. [Dutch title] or Papilions exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Amérique. [French title]. Amsterdam Baalde and Utrecht : Wild Vol. 3(17–21) 1-104 pls 193-252. [issued 1779, dated 1775–1790] [59, 176, pl. 227A, pl. 228A] [Treated as ssp. by Bastelberger (1907)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) [Moluccas]: [Seram], Ambon.
• Heleona fenestrata Swainson, W. 1833. Zoological Illustrations, or Original Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and arranged according to their natural affinities. 2nd Series. The Birds. London : Baldwin & Cradock; W. Wood; R. Havell Vol. 3 50 pp. pls 92-136. [Date published Mar. 1833: publication dated as 1832–1833, published Mar. 1833] [116].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂, ♀, Australia.
• Hazis tasmaniae Guillou, E.J.F. le 1841. Description de huit espèces de lépidoptères découverte pendant le voyage de la Zélée. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 257-258 [257].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) [Australia]: [Tasmania], Hobart-Town.
• Hazis tasmanicaria Guenée, A. 1857. In Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Atlas, coloured pls to vols 5-10. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. [189] [emendation; of tasmaniae Le Guillou].
• Hazis velitaria Guenée, A. 1857. In Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Atlas, coloured pls to vols 5-10. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. [191].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂.
• Dysphania magnifica Swinhoe, C. 1900. Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part 2. Noctuina, Geometrina and Pyralidina. Pteropophoridae and Tineina by Right Hon. Lord Wasingham and John Hartley Durrant. Oxford : Claredon Press (a) vi+630 pp., 8 pls. [377].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, ♀, [Australia]: Queensland.
• Euschema flavata Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31: 1-321 [Part 31 dated 1864 but published 11 February, 1865] [172].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Timor; [Moluccas]: Amboina [Ambon]; Batchian [Batjan Island]; Ceram [Seram].
• Euschema helenetta Walker, F. 1856. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 7: 1508-1808 [incl. Index to parts 1-7] [published May 1856] [1667].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, [Moluccas]: Seram.
• Dysphania numana arcuata Bastelberger, M.J. 1907. Neue Geometriden aus meiner Sammlung. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 20: 257-266 [257].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF ♂, [Moluccas]: Ambon.
• Hazis numanaria Guenée, A. 1858. In Boisduval, J.-A. & Guenée, A. (eds) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species général des Lépidoptères. Vol. 9. Atlas, coloured pls to vols 5-10. Paris : Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. [190] [emendation; of numana Cramer].
• Dysphania numenia Hübner, J. 1819 [1816–1826]. Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge. Augsburg, Germany : Jacob Hübner 17-176 pp. [issued 1819, dated 1816–1826] [175] [emendation; of numana Cramer].
• Dysphania chalybeata Butler, A.G. 1876. On a small collection of Lepidoptera from Cape York and the south-east coast of New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 18(104): 122-128 [127] [Treated as ssp. of numana by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Cape York.
• Dysphania splendida Bastelberger, M.J. 1905. Neue Dysphaniinae aus meiner Sammlung und kritische Bemerkungen zu einigen Arten dieser Familie. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 66: 201-224 [216] [Treated as ssp. of numana by Scoble (1999)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SMF ♂, ♀, [Queensland], Cooktown.

Introduction

Dysphania numana (Cramer, 1779) has received numerous names for island populations over its extensive range.

General References

Bastelberger, M.J. 1907. Neue Geometriden aus meiner Sammlung. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 20: 257-266 [257]

Scoble, M.J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World; a Catalogue. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia : CSIRO Publishing. [248, 249]

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