Genus Thallarcha Meyrick, 1886

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• Thallarcha Meyrick, E. 1886. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 1(3): 687-802 [736].

  Type species:

   Thallarcha phalarota Meyrick, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [499].
• Comarchis Meyrick, E. 1886. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 1(3): 687-802 [739].

  Type species:

   Comarchis isophragma Meyrick, 1886 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [499].
• Thallarche 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. [131] [subsequent misspelling].
• Thallaracha Turner, A.J. 1922. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 35(1): 26-62 [31] [subsequent misspelling].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [499]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB) ; ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Nandewar (NAN), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gulf Coastal (GUC) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Edwards, E.D. 1996. Arctiidae. pp.278-286 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. [280] (Note #550: Thallarcha Meyrick, 1886 and Comarchis Meyrick, 1886 were published simultaneously. Priority was given to Thallarcha Meyrick by Hampson (1900) as first reviser)

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