Species Telanepsia coprobora Common & Horak, 1994
- Telanepsia coprobora Common, I.F.B. & Horak, M. 1994. Four new species of Telanepsia Turner (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) with larvae feeding on koala and possum scats. Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 809-828 [822].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Larva in silken tube in soil beneath mammal scat or within scat. Larval food: scat of Trichosurus vulpecula—Brush-tailed Possum; Phascolarctos cinereus—Koala.
History of changes
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