Species Proteuxoa amaurodes (Lower, 1902)
- Agrotis amaurodes Lower, O.B. 1902. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 639-671 [Date published 20 May 1902: the journal issue was scheduled for 1901] [642].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♀, Toorak, VIC. - Proteuxoa amaurodes Hampson, G.F. 1903. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 4 xx 689 pp. [650] [junior secondary homonym of Agrotis amaurodes Lower, 1902].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♀ ♂, Exeter, TAS. - Ariathisa ochropolia Turner, A.J. 1943. New species of Lepidoptera from the Barnard collection. No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 12: 105-116 [115].
Type data:
Holotype QM ♀, Gravelly Beach near Launceston, TAS.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), 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), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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. [379: Note #723] (Proteuxoa amaurodes (Lower, 1902) is a senior secondary homonym of P. antaurodes Hampson, 1903. P. amaurodes (Lower) would also be a senior objective synonym if, from the two syntypes, the holotype of P. antaurodes Hampson was chosen as lectotype)
History of changes
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