Cryptophasa themerodes Turner, 1904
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, Queensland Museum |
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, Queensland Museum |
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, ♀, gvc1954, Townsville, collected by Graeme Cocks. |
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, ♀, gvc1954, Townsville, collected by Graeme Cocks. |
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, ♀, gvc1954, Townsville, collected by Graeme Cocks. |
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, ♀, gvc1954, Townsville, collected by Graeme Cocks. |
Cryptophasa themerodes Turner, 1904. New Australian Lepidoptera, with synonymic notes and other notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 212–247 [244]. Holotype ANIC ♀, Stradbroke Island, Qld.
Cryptophasa themerodes 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].
Cryptophasa themerodes 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
Cryptophasa themerodes, n. sp.
(Themerodes, grave, sombre.)
Female, 35 mm. Head fuscous, mixed with whitish; face white. Palpi whitish. Antennae fuscous. Thorax fuscous, mixed with whitish. Abdomen grey, apices of segments whitish, preceded by ferruginous. Legs whitish, with fuscous irroration. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa rather strongly arched in female; vein 2 from three-quarters; whitish, intimately mixed with grey, and with some dark fuscous scales; discal dots scantily represented by dark fuscous scales, first at one-third, second beyond middle, third on fold obliquely beyond first; several dark fuscous dots near termen: cilia grey. Hindwings whitish, towards termen suffused with pale fuscous; cilia whitish, with a fuscous line near bases.
Type in Coll. Turner.
Q., Stradbroke Island: in November. One specimen.
Diagnosis:
Description:
Head:
Thorax:
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, ♂. wing venation, gvc12732, Townsville, collected by Graham Cocks. |
Abdomen:
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, ♂ genitalia, gvc12732, Townsville, collected by Graham Cocks. |
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| Cryptophasa themerodes, ♂ aedeagus. gvc12732, Townsville, collected by Graham Cocks. |
Flight period: September.
Distribution: Queensland. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
Remarks: This moth has obvious similarities with Xylorycta moligera, and is part of a close-knit group of species around X. moligera that could possibly constitute a separate genus.