Species Thoracolopha pissonephra Turner, 1939

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

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC ANIC 14034 ♂, Margaret River WA.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC ♂, ♀, Margaret River WA.

  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] [427].

 

Generic Combinations

• Proteuxoa pissonephra (Turner, 1939a) 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]
• Thoralocopha pissonephra (Turner, 1939a) Hitchcock et al. —
  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] [427]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Diagnosis

"In both sexes, the fore wing is spotted, with strigulated costa. There is also a large dark scale patch adjacent to the reniformthat is crescent shaped, its proximal and distal margins both extended to a point. This spotted fore wing pattern is similar to that of Thoracolopha desertorum and T. spilocrossa, but male T. pissonephra are distinguished by the presence of scale tufts on the last ventral sclerite of the abdomen. In female T. pissonephra, the ovipositor is unusually long and the antrum is sclerotised with folded walls."
From 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]

 

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