Species Tigrioides nitens (Walker, 1865)

Tigrioides nitens (Walker, 1865), male

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• Lithosia nitens Walker, F. 1865. Supplement 1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31: 1-321 [Part 31 dated 1864 but published 11 February, 1865] [231].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay (Queensland).
• Lithosia remota Walker, F. 1869. Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera Heterocera. London : E.W. Janson 112 pp. [9].

  Type data:

   Status unknown
  Comment: type for nitens is possibly the same type for remota.
• Lithosia unicolor Lucas, T.P. 1890. On Queensland and other Australian macro-lepidoptera, with localities, and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(4): 1065-1099 [1071].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA 31-002238, 31-002239 ♂, ♀, Brisbane, Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

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