Genus Ioptera Meyrick, 1883
- Ioptera Meyrick, E. 1883. Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. VIII. Oecophoridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 7(4): 415-547 [424].
Type species:
Ioptera aristogona Meyrick, 1883 by subsequent monotypy, see Meyrick, E. 1883. Descriptions of Australian Micro-lepidoptera. IX. Oecophoridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 8(3): 320-383 [345]. - Phloeochroa Turner, A.J. 1935. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 1-15 [8].
Type species:
Phloeochroa polyrrhabda Turner, 1935 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
General References
Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [343: Note #54] (Ioptera Meyrick, 1883. First published by Meyrick (1883a: 424) in a key to genera, this name was nomenclaturally available, but without included nominal species, until the genus was formally described by Meyrick (1883d: 344))
History of changes
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