Species Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plusia eriosoma White, A. & Doubleday, E. 1843. Fauna of New Zealand. Materials towards a fauna of New Zealand, Auckland Island, and Chatham Islands. List of the annulose animals hitherto recorded as found in New Zealand, with the descriptions of some new species. pp. 265-296 in Dieffenbach, E. (ed.). Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country. London : Murray Vol. II. [285].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH.
• Plusia rogationis Guenée, 1852.
• Plusia verticillata Guenée, 1852.
• Plusia adjuncta Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 33: 707-1120 [840].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay.

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 #642 (on Plusia rogationis): Plusia rogationis was described from diverse collections and originating in Australia, North America and Colombia. Hampson (1913b) and numerous subsequent authors treated P. rogationis as conspecific with Plusia includens Walker, [1858], described from the Dominican Republic. Eichlin and Cunningham (1978) selected, from the many syntypes, a specimenon Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843) from Australia as lectotype and thereby entirely changed the sense in which the name P. rogationis had been used. This was done to ensure that P. rogationis remained a junior synonym and did not upset established nomenclature)

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