Species Psilosticha attacta (Walker, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Boarmia attacta Walker, F. 1860. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 21: 277-498 [392].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Australia: Tasmania.
• Tephrosia integraria Walker, F. 1860. Geometrites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 21: 277-498 [420].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Australia.
• Boarmia cymatias Turner, A.J. 1947. New Australian species of Boarmiadae (Lepidoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58: 71-112 [85].

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T8052 ♀, Queensland, Springbrook, 30.ix.1931, W. B. Barnard.

  Secondary source:

   Schmidt, O. 2012. An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane). Spixiana (Munich) 35(1): 79-100.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 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.

General References

McQuillan, P.B. & Edwards, E.D. 1996. Geometridae. pp. 200-228 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. [208] (Note #298: Psilosticha attacta (Walker, 1860) and P. integraria (Walker, 1860) were published simultaneously. Priority [was] given to P. attacta (Walker) as first revisers)

Schmidt, O. 2012. An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane). Spixiana (Munich) 35(1): 79-100 [82]

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