Genus Tolpia Walker, 1863

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tolpia Walker, F. 1863. Tortricites & Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 28: 287-561 [449].

  Type species:

   Tolpia conscitulana Walker, 1863 by monotypy.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Magna myops (Hampson, 1907) [listed under Tolpia Walker by Poole (1989) later reprised by Edwards (1996). Of the two Australian specimens originally cited by Hampson, one is an undescribed species of Tolpiodes Hampson, 1926 while the other is the type of Eublemma albipuncta Wileman, 1915] — Poole, R.W. 1989. Noctuidae. Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). Parts 1–3, Lepidopterorum Catalogus 118 (New Series). E.J. Brill & Flora & Fauna Publications : Leiden & Gainsville. xii +1314 pp.; 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. [301]; Fibiger, M. 2008. Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 2, Taxonomy of the Belluliinae, Magninae, and Parachrostiinae. Zootaxa 1867: 1–136 [43]

Eublemma albipuncta Wileman, 1915 [listed as synonym of Tolpia myops by Poole (1989) and Edwards (1996). Assigned to the genus Taiwani by Fibiger (2008)]

General References

Fibiger, M. 2007. Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 1, Taxonomy of the Pollexinae. Zootaxa 1567: 1–116 [9]

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