Species Synemon directa Westwood, 1877

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• Synemon directa Westwood, J.O. 1877. A monograph of the Lepidopterous genus Castnia and some allied groups. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 1: 155-207, pls 28-33 [197].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂, 'Australasia'.
• Synemon monodesma Lower, O.B. 1905. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic notes. No. XXIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 173-180 [173].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Mt Darling Range, WA.
• Synemon bifasciata Strand, E. 1911. Castniidae. 1-4, pls 1, 9 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls. [3].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Edwards, E. D. 1996. Castniidae. 138 in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds). Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [138]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Larval foodplant: Lepidosperma sp. (Cyperaceae).

 

History of changes

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