Species Scieropepla typhicola Meyrick, 1885

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• Scieropepla typhicola Meyrick, E. 1886. Description of New Zealand Micro-lepidoptera. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 18: 162-183 [165] [justified emendation of Scieropepla typicola Meyrick, 1885 with same syntypes].
• Scieropepla typicola; Meyrick, E. 1885. Descriptions of New Zealand Microlepidoptera. Gelechiadae VIII. Tineina (part). New Zealand Journal of Science 2: 589-592 [590] [original misspelling].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) CMNZ 1 ♂, 3♀, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva boring in flower head. Larval foodplants: Typha angustifolia, Typha spp. (Typhaceae).

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. [346: Note #133] (Scieropepla typhicola Meyrick, 1885. The specific name was originally rendered as 'typicola' but, as Meyrick stated that the larvae were in seedheads of Typha angustifolia, it is clear that the spelling 'typicola' was a typographical error for 'typhicola'. Dugdale (1988: 110) accepted typhicola as the correct spelling)

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