Species Scoliacma bicolora (Boisduval, 1832)

Scoliacma bicolora (Boisduval, 1832), female

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Lithosia bicolora Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont D'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le Voyage. Part 1. Lépidoptères. Paris : J. Tastu iv, 267 pp. [publication date: Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Dates of publication of the zoological and botanical portions of some French voyages. Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 8: 333 [333]] [211].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, "New Holland" (Australia).
• Lithosia rubratra Tepper, J.G.O. 1882. Descriptions of some rare new South Australian Lepidoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 5: 29-31 [30].
• Lithosia rubrata Hampson, G.F. 1900. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae) in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 2 xx 589 pp. [103] [subsequent misspelling].

Generic Combinations

• Scoliacma bicolora (Boisduval, 1832). —
  Meyrick, E. 1886. Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2-n.s. 1(3): 687-802 [695]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes