Genus Sycacantha Diakonoff, 1959

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Regional Maps

• Sycacantha Diakonoff, A. 1959. Revision of Cryptaspasma Walsingham 1900 (Lepitoptera, Tortricidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 43: 1-60 [58].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

'Sycacantha is centred on south-east Asia and New Guinea, ranging from India to the Philippine Is., New Guinea, the Solomon Is. and Australia, with several species in Africa (Tuck personal communication). Diakonoff (1973) included Japan in the range of distribution for Sycacantha, but the genus is not mentioned in Kawabe (1982). In Australia the genus is found in coastal Queensland and northern New South Wales and in the Northern Territory on the fringes of Arnhem Land'.

Distribution References

Diagnosis References

Horak, M. 2006. Olethreutine Moths of Australia (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Canberra : CSIRO Vol. 10 522 pp. [100] (diagnosis)

General References

Diakonoff, A. 1959. Entomological results from the Swedish expedition 1933 to Burma and British India. Microclepidoptera. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 12(II): 165-182 [181] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement Phaecasiophora subgenus Sycacantha Diakonoff, 1959)

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