Species Phaos aglaophara Turner, 1926

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Regional Maps

• Phaos aglaophara Turner, A.J. 1926. New and little-known Tasmanian Lepidoptera. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1925: 81-117 [112].

  Secondary source:

   Turner, A.J. 1926. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 50: 120-155 [120] (Description of Phaos aglaophara Turner, 1926).

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Females flightless

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Arctiidae. pp.278-286 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. [285] (Note #564: Phaos aglaophara Turner, 1926, was described by Turner (1926) in Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A. 50 p. 120. Earlier, in January 1926, he published a key to the species (Turner 1926, Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1925 p.112) of Phaos in which he inadvertently made the name Phaos aglaophara Turner available)

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