Polysoma eumetalla (Meyrick, 1880)

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SUBFAMILY Ornixolinae
GENUSPolysoma
SPECIES eumetalla
AUTHOR(Meyrick, 1880)
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONGrac.[ilaria] eumetalla, n. sp.
TYPE LOCALITY[Australia, Queensland], Brisbane.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES Latitude: -27°28'0" Longitude: 153°1'0"
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Lectotype ♂, BMNH(E)1055711, BMNH, designated by Dugdale (1988: 71); 3 Paralectotypes ♂, ♀, BMNH.
STATUSSpecies
PUBLICATION Meyrick, E. 1880. Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. III Tineina. - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5(1):132-182, 204-271.
PAGINATION 160 Bhl

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Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Australia Queensland Meyrick, E. 1880. Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. III Tineina. - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5(1):132-182, 204-271. 160
Australia New South Wales Meyrick, E. 1880. Descriptions of Australian Micro-Lepidoptera. III Tineina. - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5(1):132-182, 204-271. 160
Australia South Australia Common, I. F. B. 1990. Moths of Australia. - — :i-v, 1- 535. 200
Australia Tasmania Turner, A. J. 1940. A revision of the Australian Gracilariidae [sic] (Lepidoptera). - Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 64(1):50-69. 57
Australia Victoria Meyrick, E. 1907b. Descriptions of Australasian Micro-Lepidoptera. XIX. Plutellidae. - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32:47-150. 57
New Zealand   Dugdale, J. S. 1988. Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys of family-group taxa. - Fauna of New Zealand 14:1-262. 71

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATION PAGE
Fabaceae Acacia sp. Australia Meyrick, E. 1907a. Descriptions of Indian Micro-Lepidoptera. III. IV. - Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 17(3-4):133-153, 403-417, 730-754, 976-994. 57
Fabaceae Acacia sp. New Zealand Dugdale, J. S. 1988. Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys of family-group taxa. - Fauna of New Zealand 14:1-262. 71

*   In the surface of galls produced by the rust Uromycladium and other organisms (Common 1990: 200).