Species Tanycaula acrophaea (Turner, 1916)

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• Elaeonoma acrophaea Turner, A.J. 1916. Studies in Australian Microlepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 333-376 [Date published 9 Dec. 1916] [349].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Montville, Qld.
• Eulechria dysides Turner, A.J. 1938. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 63: 27-54 [29].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ♂, Coolangatta, Qld.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Common, I.F.B. 1997. Oecophorine genera of Australia. II. The Chezala, Philobota and Eulechria groups (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae). Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 5: i-xvi, 1-407 [144].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva in silken tube between tied dead leaves. Larval foodplants: dead leaves of Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae), and an unidentified rainforest tree.

 

History of changes

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