Heterochyta Meyrick, 1906
Heterochyta Meyrick, 1906, [Oecophoridae] Descriptions of Australian Tineina. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 33–66 [47]. Type species: Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyrick, 1906 by original designation.
Heterochyta Meyrick, 1906 [Oecophoridae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 108].
Heterochyta Meyr. [Oecophoridae] Turner, 1947, Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 72: 143-158 [148].
Macrobela Turner, 1947. [Oecophoridae] Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 72: 143–158 [143] [junior homonym of Macrobela Turner, 1939]. Type species: Macrobela aprepta Turner, 1947 by monotypy.
Heterochyta Meyrick, 1906 = Macrobela Turner, 1947, syn. n., nec Turner, 1939. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Heterochyta Meyrick, 1906 [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae]. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 21 April 2010].
Macrobela Turner, 1947. [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae]. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 21 April 2010]. [Synonymy not noted].
Macrobela Turner, 1947. [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae] junior homonym of Macrobela Turner, 1939 [Pyralidae]. B. Pitkin and P. Jenkins, Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and their Type-species, 2004. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/ [accessed 17 June 2010]
Heterochyta Meyrick, 1906. 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Meyrick 1906
Heterochyta, n. g.
Head with appressed hairs, sidetufts projecting between antennae; tongue developed. Antennae ¾, in male minutely ciliated (1/3), basal joint moderately elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, straight, porrected, second joint clothed with dense rough projecting hairscales above and beneath, terminal joint ¼ - ½ of second, moderate, acute or tolerably pointed. Forewings with 2 from ¾ - 5/6, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia ½; 3 and 4 connate, 5, 6, 7 parallel.
Type H. xenomorpha. Nearly allied to the preceding genus, [Heterobathra] but the palpi are peculiar and characteristic, approaching those of Pleurota. The three species are readily separated by the colour of the stigmata and proportions of the palpi:-
Stigmata blackish .........................xenomorpha.
Stigmata pale reddish-ochreous ........pyrosema.
Stigmata white .....................................asteropa.
Subsequent description, Turner 1947
Gen Heterochyta, Meyr.
Palpi very long, porrect; second joint very long, thickened with dense rough scales above and beneath; terminal joint much shorter, slender, pointed. Antennae without pecten; in male simple. Posterior tibiae smooth with some hairs on dorsum. Forewings with 2 from two-thirds, 7 and 8 stalked; 7 to apex. Hindwings elongate-ovate; 5 from middle of cell. Type, H. xenomorpha Meyr.
Synonymic description, Turner 1947
Gen. Macrobela, n. g.
(μαχροβελος, with long palpi.)
Palpi porrect; second joint very long, thickened with rough scales above and beneath; terminal joint moderate, obtuse. Antennae without pecten; in male simple. Posterior tibiae smooth with some hairs on dorsum. Forewings with 2 from two-thirds, 3 from angle, 4 separate, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. Hindwings ovate; 5 approximated to 6 at origin.
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Distribution: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
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Heterochyta aprepta (Turner, 1947)
Holotype, ANIC
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Macrobela aprepta Turner, 1947 [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae], Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 72: 143–158 [148]. Holotype ANIC ♂, Perth, WA.
Heterochyta aprepta (Turner, 1947) comb. n. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Macrobela abrepta, Turner 1947 [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae]. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 21 April 2010].
Heterochyta aprepta (Turner, 1947). 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 17 June 2010].
Original decription, Turner 1947
Macrobela aprepta, n. sp.
(απρεπτος, unadorned.)
♂. 29 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennae fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish with fuscous bars. Legs fuscous; posterior pair whitish. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, termen straight, oblique; ochreous-whitish sprinkled with fuscous; a fuscous costal streak from base nearly to apex; another streak on fold; a longitudinal median streak from middle to three-fourths; cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish.
Western Australia: Perth in August; one specimen received from Mr. W.M. Matthews.
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Heterochyta asteropa Meyrick, 1906
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Heterochyta asteropa Meyrick, 1906 [Oecophoridae]. Descriptions of Australian Tineina. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 33–66 [48]. Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀, Sydney, NSW; Mt Lofty, SA.
Heterochyta asteropa Meyr. [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae] Turner, 1947, Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 72: 143-158 [148].
Heterochyta asteropa Meyrick, 1906. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Heterochyta asteropa Meyrick, 1906 [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae]. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 22 April 2010].
Heterochyta asteropa Meyrick, 1906. 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Meyrick, 1906
Heterochyta asteropa, n. sp.
Female, 33 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax fuscous very finely irrorated with whitish; palpi 6, terminal joint 1/3, loosely scaled, tolerably pointed. Antennae whitish ringed with fuscous. Abdomen elongate, fuscous mixed with paler. Forewings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen nearly straight, rather strongly oblique: 2 from ¾; fuscous, very finely sprinkled with whitish points, with some scattered whitish scales: discal stigmata ochreous-white: cilia fuscous mixed with whitish. Hindwings pale grey; cilia whitish, with pale grey median shade.
Sydney, New South Wales: Mount Lofty, South Australia; in August and September, two specimens.
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Heterochyta asteropa Meyr., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1906, p. 48. (Sydney, Sale, Mt. Lofty, Waroona, Perth.) (Turner, 1947).
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Heterochyta infesta (Meyrick, 1921)
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Heterobathra infesta Meyrick, 1921, Exotic Microlepidoptera. 2(13–15): 385-416, 417-448, 449-480 [393]. Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Melbourne, Vic.
Heterochyta infesta (Meyrick, 1921) comb. n. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Heterochyta infesta (Meyrick, 1921). 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Meyrick 1921
Heterobathra infesta, n. sp.
♂ . 17 mm. Head, palpi, thorax dark purplish - fuscous. Forewings costa moderately arched, termen obliquely rounded; dark purplish-fuscous : cilia grey mixed dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia rather dark grey.
Victoria, Melbourne; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower). Near tetracenta.
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Heterochyta pyrotypa Common, 1996
Heterochyta pyrotypa, syntype. South Australian Museum, Adelaide. © SAMA.
Pleurota pyrosema Lower, 1899. Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 24: 83–116 [109] [junior primary homonym of Pleurota pyrosema Meyrick, 1884 (Oecophoridae)]. Syntype(s) SAMA 3♂♀, Broken Hill, NSW.
Heterochyta pyrosema, Low. Meyrick, 1906. Descriptions of Australian Tineina. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 33–66 [48].
Heterochyta pyrosema, Low. [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae] Turner, 1947: Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 72: 143-158 [148].
Heterochyta pyrotypa Common, 1996, Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monogr. Aust. Lepid. 4: i–xiv, 1–529 & CD–ROM [87] [replacement name for Pleurota pyrosema Lower, 1899 with the same type speciemen].
Heterochyta pyrosema, Lower, 1889 [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae]. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 22 April 2010].
Heterochyta pyrotypa Common, 1996. 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Lower 1899
Pleurota pyrosema, n. sp.
♂♀. 28 mm. Head, palpi and thorax greyish, base of second joint of palpi blackish externally. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Antennae greyish, ciliations 1, becoming shorter towards apex. Legs greyish-fuscous, posterior tibiae thinly banded with yellowish. Forewings elongate, moderate, rather broad, costa gently arched, hindmargin obliquely rounded; dark fuscous, finely dusted with black; an orange- red spot at end of cell; a hindmarginal row of black dots, continued round apex to costa : cilia dark fuscous, becoming greyish on terminal third. Hindwings greyish-fuscous; cilia greyish-fuscous, becoming fuscous-tinged at base.
Broken Hill, N.S.W.; three specimens in May.
Easily known by its large size and reddish discal spot.
Subsequent decription, Meyrick 1906
Heterochyta pyrosema Low.
(Pleurota pyrosema, Low, Proc. Linn. :Soc. N.S.W., l899, 109.)
Female, 31 mm. Very like asteropa, but palpi much shorter (4), second joint relatively much shorter and more broadly scaled, terminal joint half second, slender, acute: forewings with apex more obtuse, termen less oblique, 2 from 5/6, 7 and 8 longer-stalked, discal stigmata pale reddish-ochreous; hindwings and cilia fuscous.
One specimen received from Mr. Lower.
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Heterochyta pyrosema Low., Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,, 1899, p. 109, Meyr., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1906, p. 48. (Broken Hill.) (Turner, 1947).
129. Pleurota pyrosema Lower, 1899. This is a junior primary homonym of Pleurota pyrosema Meyrick, 1884 (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) and is permanently invalid (Article 52(b)). The new name pyrotypa Common is here proposed as an objective replacement name. (Common, 1996, in Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangsi, T.V. 1996. Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monogr. Aust. Lepid. 4: i–xiv, 1–529 & CD–ROM [346: Note #129]).
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Heterochyta tetracentra (Meyrick, 1906)
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Heterobathra tetracentra Meyrick, 1906, [Oecophoridae] Descriptions of Australian Tineina, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 33–66 [47]. Holotype BMNH ♂, Geraldton, WA.
Heterochyta tetracentra (Meyrick, 1906) comb. n. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Heterobathra tetracentra Meyrick, 1906 [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae]. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 22 April 2010].
Heterochyta tetracentra (Meyrick, 1906). 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Meyrick 1906
Heterobathra tetracentra, n. sp.
Male, 18 mm. Head pale fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, white towards base beneath. Antennae fuscous. Thorax whitish-fuscous, irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey-ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa strongly arched, apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded; whitish-fuscous densely irrorated with dark fuscous; rather large roundish spots of dark fuscous suffusion in disc at 2/5 and 2/3; a patch beneath middle of disc between these appearing pale through obsolescence of dark fuscous irroration: cilia whitish-fuscous, with irregular subbasal fuscous line. Hindwings fuscous; cilia as in forewings.
Geraldton, West Australia, in November; one specimen.
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Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyrick, 1906.
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Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyrick, 1906 [Oecophoridae]. Descriptions of Australian Tineina. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 33–66 [47]. Holotype BMNH ♂, Perth, WA.
Heterochyta xenomorpha M. [Oecophoridae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [108].
Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyr. [Oecophoridae] Turner, 1947, Revision of Australian Lepidoptera. Oecophoridae. XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 72: 143-158 [148].
Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyrick, 1906. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyrick, 1906 [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae]. Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex [accessed 22 April 2010].
Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyrick, 1906. 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 17 June 2010].
Original description, Meyrick, 1906
Heterochyta xenomorpha, n. sp.
Male, 19 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-whitish, shoulders greyer. Palpi 6, dark fuscous finely sprinkled with whitish, white beneath, terminal joint ¼, acute. Antennae white ringed with fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous mixed with whitish. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa strongly arched, apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, rather strongly oblique; 2 from 4/5; fuscous very finely sprinkled with whitish points, with a very few scattered black specks; stigmata small, blackish, plical obliquely before first discal, second discal transversely double: cilia pale fuscous. Hindwings light fuscous; cilia whitish, towards base mixed with fuscous.
Perth, West Australia, in October : one specimen.
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Heterochyta xenomorpha Meyr., ibid., 1906, p. 48. (Perth.) (Turner, 1947).
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