Species Thoracolopha desertorum (Turner, 1944)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ariathisa desertorum Turner, A.J. 1944. Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68: 3-17 [10].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC 14033 ♀, Ooldea, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 14051 ♂, ♀, Ooldea, South Australia
  Comment: Turner based his description on 3 males, nominated as syntypes, from Ooldea. Unfortunatley only one male with Turner's labels exists in the ANIC collection, with one type label attached to a female. Ian Common subsequently designated this female as the holotype, without formally publishing it as such. This specimen is now the designated lectotype (Hotchcock et al. 2017).

  Subsequent designation 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] [431].

 

Generic Combinations

• Proteuxoa desertorum (Turner, 1944). —
  Edwards, E.D. 1996. Noctuidae. pp. 291-333 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. [327]
• Thoralocopha desertorum (Turner, 1944). —
  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]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

Diagnosis 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] [431]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2022	NOCTUOIDEA	29-Oct-2021	MODIFIED
		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED