Species Zelotypia stacyi Scott, 1869

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• Zelotypia stacyi Scott, A.W. 1869. Description of a new genus belonging to the family Hepialidae of Stephens. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 36-39 [38].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♂ ♀, Manning River, NSW.
• Xylopsyche stacyii Swainson, W. 1851. Review. Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations. Sydney Morning Herald 30 August 1851: 2 [2] [nomen nudum].
• Xylopsyche stacyi Scott, A.W. 1865. [minutes of meeting held 1 August 1864]. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1(3): xxxviii-xxxix [xxxviii] [nomen nudum].
• Xylopsyche staceyi; Froggatt, W.W. 1923. Forest Insects of Australia. Sydney : Alfred James Kent, Government Printer viii 171 pp. 2 colour pls. [59] [misspel.].
• Zelotypia sinuosa Olliff, A.S. 1887. Notes on Zelotypia stacyi, and an account of a variety. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 467-470 [469] [infrasubsp.].

 

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. [25]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Larvae boring in the trunks of young trees. Larval foodplants: Eucalyptus tereticornis, E. grandis, E. saligna (Myrtaceae).

 

General References

De Baar, M. & Hockey, M. 2009. Zelotypia stacyi Scott (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) — a conservation perspective. Australian Entomologist 36(2): 85-88

Middleton, B.L. 1941. Notes on the bent-wing moth (Leto stacyi Scott). Australian Naturalist 10: 270-272 [270]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2017		17-Nov-2015	MOVED
26-Jun-2017	HEPIALIDAE	29-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED