Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Lichenaula callispora



Lichenaula callispora Turner, 1904


ANIC

Lichenaula callispora Turner, 1904, Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic notes and other notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia  28: 212–247 [245]. Holotype ANIC ♂, Birchip, Vic.
Lichenaula callispora Turner, 1904. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Lichenaula callispora Turner, 1904. Edwards, E. D. (2003), Xyloryctinae. Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/XYLORYCTINAE [accessed 18 June 2010].

Original description, Turner 1904
Lichenaula callispora, n. sp.
(Callisporos, prettily spotted.)
Male, female, 12-20 mm. Head white. Palpi white; second joint with a basal, third joint with a basal and apical blackish ring. Antennae blackish: in female white, annulated with blackish; ciliations in male short 2/3. Thorax white, with variable blackish spots. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish; anterior and middle pairs annulated with blackish. Forewings narrow-elongate, costa nearly straight; white, with blackish spots; a row of two or three spots close to base; two to four spots on costa; a variable number of spots in disc and on dorsum; these may be partly confluent with each other and with costal spots; a terminal series of spots: cilia white, with a blackish bar at apex. Hindwings with termen rounded; whitish grey: cilia whitish.
Type in Coll., Turner.
V., Birchip. Three specimens, received from Mr. D. Goudie.

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Distribution: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).

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