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The Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) of Papua Indonesia

by Rob de Vos

Oxycanus nigripuncta (Joicey & Talbot, 1917)

[Porina nigripuncta Joicey & Talbot, 1917] (TL: Wandammen Peninsula; type: BMNH)

synonym:

Porina nigricosta Joicey & Talbot, 1917

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: In Papua a local and rare species.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: Wandammen Peninsula. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH. Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

 

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Literatuur

Nielsen, E.S., G.S. Robinson & D.L. Wagner, 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera). Journal of Natural History 34: 823–878.