Species Proteuxoa metaneura (Lower, 1908)
- Prometopus metaneura Lower, O.B. 1908. New Australian Lepidoptera. No. XXV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 32: 110-120 [111].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♀ ♂, Broken Hill, NSW; Adelaide, SA. - Omphaletis metaneura Hampson, G.F. 1909. 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. 8 xiv 583 pp., 1 folded page. [380, pl. 131, fig. 17] [junior secondary synonym of Prometopus metaneura Lower, 1908].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♀ ♂, Broken Hill, NSW; Birchip, VIC. - Omphaletis spodochroa Lower, O.B. 1915. The Lepidoptera of Broken Hill, New South Wales. Pt I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39: 357-383 [365].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAMA ♀ ♂, [Broken Hill, NSW].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
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 #721] (Proteuxoa metaneura (Lower, 1908) is a senior secondary homonym of P. metaneura (Hampson, 1909). P. metaneura (Lower) would also be a senior objective synonym if, from the syntypes, the holotype of P. metaneura (Hampson) was chosen as lectotype)
History of changes
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