Species Thoracolopha flexirena (Walker, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Apamea flexirena Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 2. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 32: 322-706 [Date published April] [673].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, [QLD]
  Comment: Walker's description is based on a sinlge female, wich was subsequently identified as a male by Ted Edwards (Hitchcock et al. 2017).
• Orthosia quadriplana Lucas, T.P. 1895. Australian Lepidoptera: thirty new species. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Queensland 1: 103-116 [107].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♀ ♂, Brisbane, [QLD]
  Comment: The type series of this species has been lost. (Hitchcock et al. 2017).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. (eds) 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 4 xiv 529 pp. & CD-ROM. [327]

 

Generic Combinations

• Thoralocopha flexirena (Walker, 1865) Hitchcock et al. 2017. —
  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] [432]
• Proteuxoa flexirena (Walker, 1865) Edwards. —
  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]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: 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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Diagnosis in Hictchcock 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] [432]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2022	NOCTUOIDEA	30-Oct-2021	MODIFIED
		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED