Species Sphecodoptera cupreifascia (Miskin, 1892)

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• Trochilium cupreifascia Miskin, W.H. 1892. New species of Australian Macro-Lepidoptera (Heterocera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 8: 57-59 [58].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, QLD Mackay.

Generic Combinations

• Synanthedon cupreifascia (Miskin, 1892). —
  Miskin, W.H. 1892. New species of Australian Macro-Lepidoptera (Heterocera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 8: 57-59
• Sphecodoptera cupreifascia (Miskin, 1892). —
  Miskin, W.H. 1892. New species of Australian Macro-Lepidoptera (Heterocera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 8: 57-59

Introduction

Sphecodoptera cupreifascia (Miskin, 1892) comb. nov. by Kallies (2020).

From Kallies (2020, p. 25): "There are only two specimens [of S. cupreifascia] known in collections, the holotype in SAMA, which lacks the abdomen and the left fore and hindwings, and a female specimen in the NHMUK, both from Mackay [Qld, Australia]. The specimen from the NHMUK was figured and its genitalia examined and figured by Duckworth & Eichlin (1974). These authors as well as Hampson (1919) considered the species a member of the genus Synanthedon. However, based on the venation, general appearance and its genitalia, this species is quite clearly a representative of Sesiini, and it may belong to Sphecodoptera. However, more material is needed to test this association."

General References

Duckworth, W.D. & Eichlin, T.D. 1974. Clearwing moths of Australia and New Zealand (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 180: i-iii, 1-45

Hampson, G.F. 1919. A classification of the Aegeriadae of the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. Novitates Zoologicae 26: 46-119

Kallies, A. 2020. The clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of Australia, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. Zootaxa 4833(1): 001-064 [Date published 17 Aug 2020] [25]

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