Species Synemon plana Walker, 1854
Golden Sun Moth
- Synemon plana Walker, F. 1854. Lepidoptera Heterocera. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 1: 1-278 [37].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Australia. - Synemon hesperioides Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1874. [1874-1875]. Lepidoptera. Heterocera. Noctuida. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil). Wien. Band 2 (Abtheilung 2). [9, pl. 82, fig. 12].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ (the type locality is probably the place of dispatch rather than collection as the species does not occur in the neighbourhood of Sydney), Sydney, NSW. - Synemon maculata 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. [2].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMB ♂, Victoria.
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
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva feeding underground on roots and bases of plants. Larval foodplants: Austrodanthonia carphoides, A. laevis, A. setacea (Poaceae).
History of changes
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