Genus Proeidosa Atkins, 1973

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• Proeidosa Atkins, A.F. 1973. A new genus Proeidosa for an Australian skipper, Pasma polysema (Lower) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Trapezitinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12(4): 253-260 [253].

  Type species:

   Hesperilla polysema Lower, 1908 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Atkins, A.F. 1984. A new genus Antipodia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Trapezitinae) with comments on its biology and relationships. Australian Entomological Magazine 11(3): 45-58 [for corrections to this paper see Atkins, A.F. 1987. Corrections to A.F. Atkins, 1984, "A new genus Antipodia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Trapezitinae) with comments on its biology and relationships". Australian Entomological Magazine 13(5–6): 70] [45]

Atkins, A.F. 1994. A new genus Herimosa (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Trapezitinae) and its relationship to the Proeidosa group of endemic Australian skippers. Australian Entomologist 21(4): 143-152 [149] (key to the Proeidosa group of genera)

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