Species Stathmopoda melanochra Meyrick, 1897

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stathmopoda melanochra Meyrick, E. 1897. Descriptions of Australian Microlepidoptera. XVII. Elachistidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22: 297-435 [321].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH number unknown ♂♀, Sydney, Blackheath, Bathurst and Glen Innes, NSW; Melbourne and Casterton, Vic; Launceston, Deloraine, Campbell Town and Hobart, Tas; Mt Lofty and Victor Harbor, SA.
• Stathmopoda melanochroa Lower, O.B. 1897. A catalogue of Victorian Heterocera. Part xxiii–xxvi. Victorian Naturalist 14: 13-16, 45-48, 77-80, 117-120 [80] [nom. nud.].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced to New Zealand.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva predatory on scale insects, Eriococcus coriaceus (Homoptera: Eriococcidae) and Coccus baccatum, Ceroplastes sp. (Homoptera: Coccidae).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	GELECHIOIDEA	19-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Cathy Byrne (TMAG) Ms Eileen Lee (TMAG)
		01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED