Species Philobota baryptera (Turner, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eulechria baryptera Turner, A.J. 1896. Descriptions of Micro-lepidoptera from Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 1-34 [11].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♂, Brisbane, Qld.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Common, I.F.B. 1997. Oecophorine genera of Australia. II. The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 5: i-xvi, 1-407 [271].
• Eulechria eualdes Turner, A.J. 1938. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 27-54 [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, Toowoomba, Qld.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva in silken tunnel in dead leaf litter. Larval foodplant: dead leaves of Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae) in captivity.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Jul-2013		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED