Species Stenoscaptia venusta (T.P. Lucas, 1890)

Stenoscaptia venusta (T.P. Lucas, 1890), male

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Mosoda venusta Lucas, T.P. 1890. On Queensland and other Australian macro-lepidoptera, with localities, and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(4): 1065-1099 [1078].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 31-002233 ♂, ♀, Brisbane, Queensland
  Comment: No data on specimens, type locality is from description. Melbourne (Victoria) is also listed as a locality in Lucas (1890), but the species has not been recorded from Victoria.

Generic Combinations

• Stenoscaptia venusta (T.P. Lucas, 1890). —
  Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [280]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes