Leptobelistis Turner, 1902
Leptobelistis Turner, 1902, New Australian Lepidoptera, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26: 175–207 [198]. Type species: Leptobelistis asemanta Turner, 1902 by monotypy.
Leptobelistis Turner, 1902 [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [125].
Leptobelistis Turner, 1902. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Leptobelistis Turner, 1902. 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].
Leptobelistis Turner, 1902. 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, Turner 1902
Leptobelistis, n. g.
Head with loosely appressed hairs. Tongue very small and weak. Antennae in male strongly ciliated. Palpi short, recurved, slender, not reaching vertex; second joint with appressed scales; terminal joint about half second, slender, acute. Thorax smooth. Abdomen slender. Forewings with vein 2 from five-sixths, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 long-stalked, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 3 and 4 separate at base, 6 and 7 stalked to four-fifths of their length.
The long-stalking of veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings and the short palpi, with well-developed, slender, terminal joint, sufficiently characterise this genus.
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Distribution: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
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Leptobelistis asemanta Turner, 1902
Leptobelistis asemanta, ♂, holotype. Photograph by Patrick Strutzenberger, ©BMNH.
Leptobelistis asemanta, ♂ - Qld, Rose Bay, Bowen Lat. 20' 01'' S Long. 148' 16'' E, 8. Oct. 1993, I.F.B. Common leg. (ANIC). [AMO].
Leptobelistis asemanta Turner, 1902, New Australian Lepidoptera, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26: 175–207 [198]. Holotype BMNH ♀, Townsville, Qld.
Leptobelistis asemanta Turner [Cryptophasidae]. Fletcher, T. B., 1929, A list of generic names used for Microlepidoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture of India, 11: 1-244 [125].
Leptobelistis asemanta Turner, 1902. Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Leptobelistis asemanta Turner, 1902. 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 29 April 2010].
Leptobelistis asemanta Turner, 1902. 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, Turner 1902
Leptobelistis asemanta, n. sp.
Male and female, 12-15 mm. Head white. Palpi white; second joint with a subapical fuscous ring. Antennae dark fuscous; in female white; ciliations in male 2. Thorax dark fuscous, irrorated with white. Abdomen ochreous-fuscous; tuft whitish. Legs white j anterior and middle pair dark fuscous anteriorly. Forewings rather narrow, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin straight, oblique; white, sparsely irrorated with dark fuscous; three large fuscous spots on inner margin at base, middle. and anal angle; cilia dark-fuscous, mixed with white. Hindwings and cilia pale grey.
Townsville, Queensland, in November; a series bred by Mr. F. P. Dodd.
Type in Coll. Walsingham.
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Food plants: Larval foodplant: Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae). (Edwards, 2003).
Flight period: October.
Distribution: Queensland. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
Remarks: Patrick Struztzenberger records the holotype in the BMNH as a male, not a femle as recorded by the AFD.
Leptobelistis isthmodes (Meyrick, 1922)
Leptobelistis isthmodes, ANIC
Oegoconia isthmodes Meyrick, 1922, [Gelechiadae]. Exotic Microlepidoptera, 2 (16–19): 481–512, 513–544, 545–576, 577–608 [506] Holotype SAMA ♂, Broken Hill, NSW.
Leptobelistis isthmodes (Meyrick, 1922). Common, in Nielsen, Edwards, & Rangsi, 1996, Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera, 4: i-xiv, 1-529 & CD-ROM [87].
Oegoconia isthmodes Meyrick, 1922 [Symmocidae]. 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 29 April 2010].
Leptobelistis isthmodes (Meyrick, 1922). 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 1922
Oegoconia isthmodes, n. sp.
♂. 14 mm. Head white. Palpi moderate, white, terminal joint 2/3. Antennal ciliations 1 4. Thorax white, a blackish mark on shoulder. Forewings rather narrow, apex obtuse-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded; whitish; a narrow irregular dark fuscous almost basal fascia; a narrow irregular dark fuscous streak along dorsum from ¼ to tornus, confluent with two very irregular transverse blotches in disc representing stigmata; costal edge grey, some grey irroration just beneath it, broader from middle to 4/5; some fuscous irroration along termen : cilia white, on termen a grey patch. Hindwings and cilia light grey.
New South Wales, Broken Hill, October; 1 ex. (Coll. Lower).
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Distribution: New South Wales, Victoria. Endemic. (Edwards, 2003).
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