Species Pollanisus apicalis (Walker, 1854)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Procris apicalis Walker, F. 1854. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 1: 1-278 [111].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Pollanisus sequens Walker, F. 1854. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 1: 1-278 [115].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Tasmania (as 'Van Diemen's Land').
• Procris novaehollandiae Wallengren, H.D.J. 1860. Lepidopterologische Mittheilungen. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 4: 33-46, 161-176 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♂, Sydney, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tarmann, G.M. 2005. Zygaenid Moths of Australia. A revision of the Australian Zygaenidae (Procridinae: Artonini). Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 248 pp. [81]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larval foodplants: Hibbertia obtusifolia, H. virgata (Dilleniaceae).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Jul-2013		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
29-Jul-2013		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		13-May-2010	MODIFIED