Species Philenora lunata (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
Philenora lunata (T.P. Lucas, 1890), male syntype
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Species Philenora lunata (T.P. Lucas, 1890)
- Comarchis lunata Lucas, T.P. 1890. On Queensland and other Australian macro-lepidoptera, with localities, and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(4): 1065-1099 [1083].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♂, Brisbane, Queensland.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: terrestrial, volant.
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. [279] (Note #545: Philenora lunata (T.P. Lucas, 1890). T.P. Lucas did not usually label his types as such. A specimen in the SAMA [was] labelled subsequently as the type by H. Womersley. This specimen does not fit Lucas' description and the species is, at present, unidentified)
History of changes
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