Species Xylorycta leucophanes Lower, 1892

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• Xylorycta leucophanes Lower, O.B. 1892. Descriptions of New South Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15: 5-17 [17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 5♂♀, Highbury, SA.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva in tube of silk and frass in leaves. Larval foodplants: Hakea rugosa, H. sericea, Hakea sp. (Proteaceae).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	GELECHIOIDEA	19-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Cathy Byrne (TMAG) Ms Eileen Lee (TMAG)
		29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED