Genus Thoracolopha Turner, 1939

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• Thoracolopha Turner, A.J. 1939. New Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50: 133-152 [143].

  Type species:

   Thoracolopha pissonephra Turner, 1939 by original designation.

Introduction

Removed from synonomy (with Proteuxoa) and re-established as a valid taxon based on COI data and morphology of genitalia (Hitchcock et al. 2017).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, SA, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Stony Plains (STP) ; Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Diagnosis

Diagnosis is provided in Hitchcock et al. (2017).

Diagnosis References

Hitchcock, B., Edwards, E. & Mitchell, A. 2017. Integrating dots and spots with COI sequence data reinstates Thoracolopha Turner, 1939 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), for 13 Australian species formerly in Proteuxoa Hampson, 1903. Austral Entomology 57: 418–439 [Date published 2 October 2017: print copy available November 2018]

General References

Hitchcock, B., Edwards, E. & Mitchell, A. 2017. Integrating dots and spots with COI sequence data reinstates Thoracolopha Turner, 1939 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), for 13 Australian species formerly in Proteuxoa Hampson, 1903. Austral Entomology 57: 418–439 [Date published 2 October 2017: print copy available November 2018] [426]

History of changes