Species Scotocyma albinotata (Walker, 1866)

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• Scotosia albinotata Walker, F. 1866. Supplement 5. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35: 1534-2040 [incl. Summary and Index to parts 31-35] [1689] [recognised as a ssp. of S. albinotata by Scoble, 1999].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, [Queensland], Moreton Bay.
• Xanthorhoe? platydesma Lower, O.B. 1894. New Australian Heterocera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 77-113 [79].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Queensland, Duaringa.
• Paragramma mimula Warren, W. 1905. New species of Thyrididae, Uraniidae, and Geometridae, from the Oriental Region. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 410-438 [425] [recognised as a ssp. of S. albinotata by Scoble, 1999. Originally as sp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Solomon Islands: Bougainville.
• Scotocyma euryochra Turner, A.J. 1922. Australian Lepidoptera of the group Geometrites. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 46: 225-294 [242].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, New South Wales, Toronto, near Newcastle.
• Scotocyma idioschema Turner, A.J. 1922. Australian Lepidoptera of the group Geometrites. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 46: 225-294 [242].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 3♀, Queensland (north), Kuranda; Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton; Queensland, Brisbane.
• Scotocyma transfixa Turner, A.J. 1931. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Supplementary. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 56: 325-344 [337].

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA T8015 ♀, Queensland, National Park, 3000 ft, 26.ii.1929, W. B. Barnard.
  Paratype(s) 1 specimen, Queensland, Jandowae near Dalby.

  Secondary source:

   Schmidt, O. 2012. An annotated and illustrated list of the primary type specimens of geometrid moths deposited in the Queensland Museum (Australia, Brisbane). Spixiana (Munich) 35(1): 79-100 [93].
• Scotocyma ischnophrica Turner, A.J. 1932. New Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 56: 175-196 [175].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Queensland, Mt Tambourine.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schmidt, O. 2005. Revision of Scotocyma Turner (Lepdidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 44: 257-278 [262] (S. platydesma, euryochra, idioschema, transfixa, ischnophrica)