Species Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Phalaena crepuscularis Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [509].
• Phalaena occidua Linnaeus, 1758.
• Nyctipao leucotaenia Guenée, 1852.
• Nyctipao dentifascia Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [947].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, North Australia.
• Nyctipao variegata Swinhoe, 1900.
• Nyctipao obscura Bethune-Baker, 1906.
• Nyctipao leucotaenia deochrata Strand, 1914.
• Erebus leucotaenia subobscura Rothschild, 1915.
• Erebus saparaea Swinhoe, 1918.
• Nyctipao albicrustata L.B. Prout, 1919.
• Erebus speciosus Hulstaert, 1923.
• Nyctipao meforensis A.E. Prout, 1924.
• Nyctipao phaea Turner, 1933.
• Nyctipao deochrata Gaede, 1938.
• Nyctipao subobscura Gaede, 1938.

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 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. [308] (Note 640. Erebus crepuscularis (Linnaeus, 1758) and E. occidua (Linnaeus, 1758) were published simultaneously. Priority was given to E. crepuscularis (Linnaeus) by Mikkola and Honey (1993))

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