Bida Walker, 1864
Bida Walker, 1864. Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 29. 562–835 pp. [824]. Type species: Bida crambella Walker, 1864 by monotypy.
Bida Walk. Meyrick, 1906. Descriptions of Australian Tineina. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 33–66.
Bida Walker, 1864 = Cryptolechia Zeller [Oecophoridae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [32].
Bida Walker, 1864. Common, 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 [86].
Bida Walker, 1864, 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 15 September 2019].
Bida Walker, 1864. 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 13 June 2010].
Bida Walker, 1864. [Oecophoridae, Oecophorinae] 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 7 April 2010]
Original description, Walker 1864
BIDA
Corpus sat robustum: Proboscis conspicua. Palpi squamosi, subarcuati, capitis latitudine plus duplo longiores; articulus 3us 2o vix brevior. Pedes longiusculi, sat graciles. Alae anticae longae, lanceolatae, acutae, margine exteriore recto perobliquo.
Allied to Oecophora. Body rather stout. Proboscis distinct. Palpi squamous, very slightly curved, more than twice longer than the breadth of the head; third joint setiform, nearly as long as the second. Legs smooth, rather long and slender. Wings long, lanceolate; fringe moderately long. Fore wings acute; exterior border straight, very oblique; second inferior vein near the first and the third; fourth remote from the third.
Subsequent description, Meyrick 1906
Bida, Walk.
Head with appressed scales; tongue developed. Antennae in male serrulate, minutely ciliated (1/3), basal joint moderate, without pecten. Labial palpi extremely long, recurved, second joint much exceeding base of antennae, rough-scaled beneath, terminal joint as long as second, somewhat thickened with scales towards base, acute. Forewings with 2 from 4/5, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from before middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia 1/3; 3 and 4 connate, 5-7 nearly parallel. Allied to Acolasta [ = Cryptolechia] and Phaeosaces [ = Cryptolechia], but differing from both in the rough scales of second joint of palpi, which are also exceptionally long.
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Distribution: New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
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Bida radiosella (Walker, 1863)
Bida radiosella, QM
Bida radiosella, ANIC
Psecadia ? radiosella Walker, 1863, Crambites & Tortricites, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 28. 287–561 pp. [539]. Holotype BMNH ♂, Tasmania.
Bida crambella Walker, 1864. Tineites, List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 29. 562–835 pp. [824].
Bida radiosella Walk. Meyrick, 1906. Descriptions of Australian Tineina. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 33–66 . Holotype BMNH ♂, South Australia.
Cryptolechia radiosella, Walk. Tillyard, R.J., 1926, Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Angus & Robertson. 1-560. (424, Pl. 28:21.)
Cryptolechia crambella Wlk. = radiosella, Wlk. [Oecophoridae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [32].
Bida radiosella (Walker, 1864). Common, 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 [86].
Bida radiosella, Walker. 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 15 September 2019].
Bida radiosella (Walker, 1864). 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 13 June 2010].
Original description, Walker 1863
Psecadia ? radiosella
Mas. Alba; thorax fusco bivittatus; alae anticae longae, apice rotundate, vitis duabus strigisque nonnullis aeneo-fuscis, vitta 2a nigro submarginata, venis nigricantibus; posticae cinereae.
Male. White. Antennae brown, stout, minutely serrated and setulose. Thorax with a brown stripe on each side. Anterior legs mostly brown. Wings long, rounded at the tips. Fore wings with two aeneous-brown stripes; first stripe subcostal, joining the costa beyond the middle; second extending to the tip of the wing, partly bordered with black in front; some aeneous-brown streaks between the veins, which are blackish; fringe interlined with pale brown; under side brown; exterior border very oblique. Hind wings cinereous. Length of the body 5 lines [10.6mm]; of the wings 15 lines [31.7mm].
a. Tasmania. From the Entomological Society's collection.
[1 English line = 2.117 mm].
Synonymic description, Walker 1863
BIDA CRAMBELLA.
Albida; ala antica vittis tribus cervinis, 1a subcostali, 2a apicem attingente, venis nigricantibus.
Whitish. Fore wings with three fawn-coloured stripes; first stripe subcostal; second extending to the tip of the wing; third near the interior border, extending to the interior angle; veins blackish. Length of the body 6? lines [12.7mm?]; of the wings 16 lines [33.9mm].
a. South Australia. Presented by R. Bakewell, Esq.
Subsequent description, Meyrick 1906
Bida radiosella, Walk.
(Psecadia radiosella, Walk., Tin 539; Bida crambella, ib, 824.)
Male, female, 23-29 mm. Head white. Palpi white, lower half of second and terminal joints fuscous. Antennae fuscous. Thorax white, shoulders, inner edge of patagia, and two posterior marks fuscous. Abdomen whitish, with dorsal series of ferruginous patches. Forewings elongate, narrowed anteriorly, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, termen slightly sinuate, oblique: white: all veins marked with fine fuscous lines mixed posteriorly with blackish; three pale fuscous longitudinal streaks, first from base beneath costa to costa beyond middle, extending along it to near apex, second median, from base to apex, united with first at base, finely edged with dark fuscous beneath on basal third, and above from 1/3 to 3/5, third less marked, subdorsal, from near base to near tornus; indications of faint pale fuscous streaks, between veins towards tornus: cilia white, with two light fuscous lines. Hindwings whitish-grey: cilia whitish, with two faint fuscous lines.
Blackheath, New South Wales: Melbourne, Victoria; Mount Lofty, South Australia; in November, three specimens.
Bida radiosella, Pl. 28:21, Tillyard, 1926.
C. radiosella Walk. (pl. 28, fig 21) is a fine Australian species with grey forewings marked with whitish rays. (Tillyard, 1926).
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Bida radiosella, aedeagus. Albany, W.A., 5 October 1951, collected by I.F.B. Common. ANIC slide no. G141, dissected by I.F.B. Common, 1956. Photomicrograph taken at ANIC, Canberra.
Bida radiosella, ♂ genitalia. 2 mls S of Ulladulla, NSW, 15 October 1956, collected by I.F.B. Common and M.S. Upton. ANIC slide no. G3297, dissected by I.F.B. Common 1984. Photomicrograph taken at ANIC, Canberra.
Bida radiosella, aedeagus. 2 mls S of Ulladulla, NSW, 15 October 1956, collected by I.F.B. Common and M.S. Upton. ANIC slide no. G3297, dissected by I.F.B. Common 1984. Photomicrograph taken at ANIC, Canberra.
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Flight period: November.
Distribution: New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
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Updated 15 September 2019.