Species Termessa discrepans Walker, [1865]

Termessa discrepans (Walker, [1865]), male

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Termessa discrepans Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31: 1-321 [Part 31 dated 1864 but published 11 February, 1865] [265].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia.
• Termessa hamula Felder, R. in Felder, R. & Rogenhofer, A.F. 1874. [1874-1875]. Lepidoptera. Heft IV, V. Atlas der Heterocera Sphingida. Noctuida. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Zoologischer Theil). Wien. Band 2 (Abtheilung 2). vi+548 pp. 74 pls. [pl. 106, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, (no locality data).
• Termessa samula Seitz, A. 1914. Arctiidae, Tiger moths; Lithosiinae, Lichen-moths [Darantoides-Scaphidriotis]. Pp. 118-134, pls 10, 11, 13, 18 in Seitz, A. (ed.). [1913-1914]. The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag. [130] [subsequent misspelling].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes